“I am very pleased and honored to have had the opportunities work with James on our open source project, and even when we got pulled to work in different teams later, James would be the go-to person for any React/Redux and application architecture design questions. James also gave public talk on ES6 Promise during Tech Talk & QA Panel, and this has been only one of the examples of how he brought excitement to workspace to catch on the industry best practices. James has clearly demonstrated his expertise in the topic (amongst many more other topics), and moreover, his ability to pull his team together and elevate everyone. I enjoyed working with James and I have been greatly inspired by James' strong analytical skill, his creative approaches to every challenges, and his truly caring and influential spirit! ”
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Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
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