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The Art of Programming with Erika Heidi

Erika Heidi on July 23, 2020

One of the most consolidated misconceptions about programming, since the early days, is the idea that such activity is purely technical, completely...

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Ben Halpern • Jul 23 '20

I love the artwork in the opening slide

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

I love the doodles on this slide! So cute!

Erika Heidi • Jul 23 '20

that was an actual drawing that my mom kept :D

Muhammad Ali • Jul 23 '20

I thought you're live :p good talk BTW.

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

That just makes it so much better! Lovely!

Deborah • Jul 23 '20

It's just that math is commonly correlated with logic, and programming is this perfect marriage between art and logic... But the way they want to teach the logic part using plain old math just doesn't work for everyone! I'm totally into alternative ways of teaching logic, specially for children and grad students

Ben Halpern • Jul 23 '20

I can definitely relate to the "journey of self-discovery" that is being an artist in code.

Esmeralda Samarripa • Jul 23 '20

This is so eye opening to me on why I hit a roadblock to my CS degree when it came to the upper level math. Calculus II completely demolished me and I had to change my major to Information Technology. I love coding and I passed my programming fundamentals courses, which used Java, with all A's and I really enjoyed the courses. Love your presentation!

Dominic Duffin • Jul 23 '20

Great to hear your story! My mother is an artist, my grandmother was a mathematician, my grandfather a scientist, and your talk is makng my think about how my decision to go into coding is kind of like a combination of all that heritage.

Arit Developer • Jul 23 '20

That's a rich heritage - you're blessed 😄

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

Margaret Hamilton is an icon <3 One of my heroes!

Bryant Richards • Jul 23 '20

I have that shirt! Loved doing Hacktoberfest.

Omar • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

All respect for Margaret Hamilton , I have it as wallpaper for 3+ years <3.
It's my motivation when I get off the road :)

Ami Scott (they/them) • Jul 23 '20

I'm wearing that exact same shirt today 😂

Jonathan Yeong • Jul 23 '20

I had always believed that I wasn't creative and that was why I'm a programmer. But I feel like I should challenge that mindset after listening to your talk! Thanks for the new ideas Erika!

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

I love how creative I can be while programming <3

Arit Developer • Jul 23 '20

The slide deck is marvelously designed! 😄

Pachi 🥑 (she/her) • Jul 23 '20

Erika <3

Erika Heidi • Jul 23 '20

Pachiiiiii <3 <3

Bogdan Covrig • Jul 23 '20

eeee Hacktoberfest t-shirt representing 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

Pavithra Eswaramoorthy • Jul 23 '20

I love the slide on demystifying art <3 It gives me so much freedom :)

Terri Fricker • Jul 23 '20

What is IRC?

Maren Lilleberre • Jul 23 '20

Internet Relay Chat:) Very popular when I was a teenager in the late 90's

dubrayjason • Jul 23 '20

Interesting. I remember ICQ but not IRC.

Vitor Castelo • Jul 23 '20

An early form of a chat. The most famous app back then was mIRC.

Dan Newton • Jul 23 '20

I haven't had to think about maths since working as a software developer. For someone that did so much maths, I have been given the chance to forget it all :p

Courtney Sims • Jul 23 '20

I personally miss it, to be honest! I loved math in school (up until I hit linear algebra, then it lost me), and I'm kind of sad that I've forgotten so much of what I learned after being out of school for a few years. It might be time for me to hit up Khan Academy again!

Dan Newton • Jul 23 '20

I feel you! I haven't missed it since I still get my fix from solving problems in software development.

Pachi 🥑 (she/her) • Jul 23 '20

VERY TRUE <3 We are artists!!!

João Pedro Resende • Jul 23 '20

Hello Erika!

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 23 '20

Make more codes. Make more open source. And then let people decide. And while they are deciding: make more codes, make more open source. Don't be afraid

Great quote. Loved how you adapted it to software development. Great presentation :)

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Pachi 🥑 (she/her) • Jul 23 '20

ai Jao <3

Carike Blignaut-Staden • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Awesome talk @saronyitbarek !

MxL Devs • Jul 23 '20

Programming truly is an art of its own. I can spend hours sitting in front of a piece of code wondering why the programmer wrote it the way they did.

Next we just need to open a code gallery featuring the greatest pieces of code nice and framed.

Cheray • Jul 23 '20

So many women :D

Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻 • Jul 23 '20

I love the artwork on the slides.

Andrew Baisden • Jul 23 '20

This is so cool :)

Pachi 🥑 (she/her) • Jul 23 '20

I love that SE is a baby !

Paulo Lins • Jul 23 '20

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

I usually say that I'm solving a jigsaw puzzle. I'm going to start using the lego brick analogy! So much better!

Linda Thompson • Jul 23 '20

Trial & error is a big reason that I'm doing ok with learning to write software. :) Loving this talk! I think it's important to think about the connection between logic & art. Great job!