The Art of Programming - Codeland 2020

Slides as presented at Codeland 2020

Transcript

2. A Brief Story
6. Programming Is it Science or is it Art ?
7. Let's go back to the early days
8. "Software during the early days of this project was treated like a stepchild and not taken as seriously as other engineering disciplines, such as hardware engineering; and it was regarded as an art and as magic, not a science." Margaret Hamilton
9. What is Art?
10. "Works produced by human creative skill and imagination." Oxford Dictionary
11. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Alberto Giacometti
12. Key Aspects of Art • Creativity and Imagination • Individual Expression • Depicts an alternative reality
13. Demystifying Art • Not an adjective • Doesn't need to be good • Doesn't need to be beautiful
14. Now back to Software
15. "I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas" Margaret Hamilton
16. Software Engineering: the truth • Still very young • Strongly based on trial-and-error • Tests can't be considered mathematical proof
17. Programming Languages are Building Blocks
18. Going Vanilla
19. Using a Framework
20. The Rest is Up to You!
21. Programming is Art Built on top of Logic.
23. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” Andy Warhol
24. Thanks! @erikaheidi | eheidi.dev