One of the most consolidated misconceptions about programming, since the early days, is the idea that such activity is purely technical, completely exact in nature, like Math and Physics. Computation is exact, but programming is not. The first is a result of a machine operation, and the latter is still a human activity.
This talk presents a different perspective about programming as an art and a form of personal expression, showing the importance of curiosity and creativity for building excellent developers.
Speaker Info
Erika Heidi is passionate about community, open source, and building things. A software engineer / DevOps turned writer, Erika currently works as senior technical writer at DigitalOcean.
Slides
Here is a download link to the talk slides (PDF)
This talk will be presented as part of CodeLand:Distributed on July 23. After the talk is streamed as part of the conference, it will be added to this post as a recorded video.
Latest comments (60)
Great job! 👍
Really appreciate your talk. A great summary of our field. I shared it on twitter twitter.com/abelmbula/status/12865...
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.
Nice parallel with the LEGO blocks!
Great talk @erikaheidi ! :D
I kind of related with what you've said... :P
Thanks.
Great quote. Loved how you adapted it to software development. Great presentation :)
Great talk :thumbsup
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!
Great talk Erika! Super relatable.
Thank you so much. I'm good at math, but struggle with the art.
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