Megan Dorsey

Megan is the programming foundations lead on the editorial desk. She writes and reviews guides on programming fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, software design, and web development. Her work connects basic syntax to the decisions programmers make as a program grows. She explains how values move through code, how data is organized, and how functions and modules divide responsibility. She also covers browser and server behavior when those details affect an example.

Before teaching computing, she worked as a software engineer on backend systems. That work required her to trace requests, inspect stored data, read logs, and find the small assumption behind a larger fault. It taught her that code can look reasonable and still fail under ordinary conditions. Moving into the classroom made the same lesson useful in a different setting. A learner needs to see what works and why a plausible attempt breaks.

She begins with a concrete task and writes the code before drafting the explanation. Her guides show an initial failure, the evidence produced by the program, and the change that corrects it. She names each step in the debugging process and keeps abstractions tied to visible behavior. For algorithms, she traces the data through each operation. For web development, she separates what happens in the browser from what happens on the server. She insists that every guide include an example she has run and checked from start to finish.