A book review of The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau

Software and technology has changed every aspect of the world we live in. At one extreme are the ‘mission critical’ applications - the code that runs our banks, our hospitals, our airports and phone networks. Then there’s the code we all use every day to browse the web, watch movies, create spreadsheets… not quite so critical, but still code that solves problems and delivers services. But what about the code that only exists because somebody wanted to write it? Code created just to make people smile, laugh, maybe even dance? Maybe even code that does nothing at all, created just to see if it was possible? Join Dylan Beattie - programmer, musician, and creator of the Rockstar programming language - for an entertaining look at the art of code. We’ll look at the origins of programming as an art form, from Conway's Game of Life to the 1970s demoscene and the earliest Obfuscated C competitions. We’ll talk about esoteric languages and quines - how DO you create a program that prints its own source code? We’ll look at quine relays, code golf and generative art, and we’ll explore the phenomenon of live coding as performance - from the pioneers of electronic music to modern algoraves and live coding platforms like Sonic Pi. Check out more of our talks, courses, and conferences in the following links: https://ndcconferences.com/ https://ndc-london.com/

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First, we'll do a brief overview of the FizzBuzz kata, and see one 'idiomatic' way to implement it in C# (the Java, Javascript, Visual Basic, etc. version would be similar, so all OO programmers are welcome). Next, most of the talk will be a live demo showing approaches to the kata in Haskell and Clojure. If you've never seen Haskell or Clojure before, but are curious about these languages, this is the talk for you! Finally, we take some of the ideas from the Haskell and Clojure implementations, and bring them back to C# for a second attempt at the kata. NDC Conferences https://ndcsydney.com https://ndcconferences.com

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notes from the book

notes from the book

notes from the book

notes from the book

notes from the book