The Art of Programming - Laracon Online Winter 22

Talk presented at Laracon Online Winter on February 9, 2022.

Talk Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq-yHAwYjQ&t=29013s

Transcript

2. A Brief Story
8. Programming Is it Science or is it Art ?
9. Let's go back to the early days
10. Margaret Hamilton Project Apollo
11. "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
12. What is Art?
13. "Works produced by human creative skill and imagination." Oxford Dictionary
14. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” Alberto Giacometti
15. “Art is not meant to be perfect, because it is made by humans and we're not perfect either.” Mom
16. Key Aspects of Art • Creativity and imagination • Depicts an alternative reality • Not meant to be perfect
17. Demystifying Art • Not an adjective • Doesn't need to be good • Doesn't need to be beautiful
18. A word about creativity…
19. “It lives on because it appeals to romantic prejudices about invention. There is a myth about how something new comes to be.” - Kevin Ashton, "How to Fly a Horse" The Creativity Myth
20. Now back to software
21. "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
22. Software Engineering: the truth • Still very young • Strongly based on trial-and-error • Tests can't be considered mathematical proof
23. Programming Languages are Building Blocks
24. Going Vanilla
25. Using a Framework
26. The Rest is Up to You!
27. Programming is Art built on top of Logic. Art & Science
28. To be an Artisan…
32. The Artisan Way
33. “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
34. Thank you! @erikaheidi eheidi.dev