tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:/joyofcoding tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/308876 2015-08-17T14:05:30-04:00 2015-08-17T14:10:09-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/306805 2015-07-22T08:32:00-04:00 2015-07-22T08:45:24-04:00 Here's a guilty secret of programming: a little debugging is a lot of fun. Granted, too much debugging can be the opposite of fun. Therein lies a mystery: why can't we ever seem to write *just the right amount* of bugs? The discipline tasked with answering these questions, known as Software Engineering has for the past four decades (and a bit) managed to ignore some fundamental facts about programming, such as why a little debugging can be a lot of fun, and more interestingly where bugs come from in the first place. Laurent's talk reveals some dismal truths about this sad state of affairs, but also offers more uplifting suggestions on how we can bring tons of fun back into programming, by developing new skills such as leprechaun hunting and brain debugging. Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/306803 2015-07-22T08:30:09-04:00 2015-07-22T08:33:28-04:00 Back in the 1940s, a French writer called Raymond Queneau wrote an interesting book with the title Exercises in Style featuring 99 renditions of the exact same short story, each written in a different style. In my book "Exercises in Programming Style" I shamelessly do the same for a simple program. From monolithic to object-oriented to continuations to relational to publish/subscribe to monadic to aspect-oriented to map-reduce, and much more, you will get a tour through the richness of human computational thought by means of implementing one simple program in many different ways. This is more than an academic exercise; large-scale systems design feeds on these ways of thinking. I will talk about the dangers of getting trapped in just one or two prescribed styles during your career, and the need to truly understand this wide variety of concepts when architecting software. Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/306802 2015-07-22T08:29:04-04:00 2015-07-22T08:31:57-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/306801 2015-07-22T08:27:17-04:00 2015-07-22T08:33:45-04:00 In most disciplines built on skill and knowledge, from art to architecture, from creative writing to structural engineering, there is a strong emphasis on studying existing work. Exemplary pieces from past and present are examined and discussed in order to provoke thinking and learn techniques for the present and the future. Although programming is a discipline with a very large canon of existing work to draw from, the only code most programmers read is the code they maintain. They rarely look outside the code directly affecting their work. This talk examines some examples of code that are interesting because of historical significance, profound concepts, impressive technique, exemplary style or just sheer geekiness. Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/93107 2014-03-28T12:11:37-04:00 2014-03-29T03:51:46-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/93086 2014-03-28T09:18:39-04:00 2014-03-29T03:51:34-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/93055 2014-03-28T07:09:04-04:00 2014-03-28T07:13:27-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/92170 2014-03-23T10:36:35-04:00 2014-03-23T10:37:56-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/91738 2014-03-20T03:06:28-04:00 2014-03-20T03:07:01-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/91218 2014-03-17T09:01:03-04:00 2014-03-17T09:04:49-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/91216 2014-03-17T08:59:49-04:00 2014-03-17T09:09:54-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/90353 2014-03-11T07:00:07-04:00 2014-03-11T07:05:14-04:00 Joy of Coding (@joyofcoding) 2015-08-17T14:05:30-04:00