the creative programmer - codess seattle 2015

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● Product Designer at SoundCloud

● Game maker w/ Brooklyn Gamery

● Event organizer & teacher

● Lover of making things with code!

A little about me:

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Technology isa thing now!

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More marginalized people in tech

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Great perks!

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Makers, not just consumers

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That’s awesome!

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It’s not all joy & joyness.

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Programming education can be hostile.

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LecturesThe mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin is implemented as a PHP extension.

It is written in C and operates under the hood of PHP.

During the startup of the PHP interpreter, in the module init phase of the PHP engine, it gets registered as a mysqlnd plugin to replace selected mysqlnd C methods.

At PHP runtime, it inspects queries sent from mysqlnd (PHP) to the MySQL server

If a query is recognized as read-only, it will be sent to one of the configured slave servers. Statements are considered read-only if they either start with SELECT, the SQL hint /*ms=slave*/ or a slave had been chosen for running the previous query, and the query started with the SQL hint /*ms=last_used*/. In all other cases, the query will be sent to the MySQL replication master server.

I’m not coding at all in this class...

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HomeworkI don’t have

time to do all this at home!

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Expensive books

MSRP $40 MSRP $25 MSRP $50 MSRP $20

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Confusing tutorials

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Imitation & hacking

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Programming education has high barriers to entry,

low barriers to frustration.

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Programming culture often celebrates code

over creativity.

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Hierarchy of languages

PHPJava SQL C++ASP.NET

JS C#Ruby Objective C

Python

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Hierarchy of frameworks

JS

Angular EmberBackbone

Node ReactIO

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“Real programmer”I haven’t slept in weeks!

export class Just<A> extends Maybe<A> {

constructor(public value: A) { super(); };

export class Nothing<A> extends Maybe<A> {

constructor() { super(); };

fold<R>(match) { return match.nothing; }

export function of<A>(value: A): Maybe<A> {

return new Just(value);

export function zero<A>(): Nothing<A> {

return new Nothing();

export function map<A, B>(fn: (a: A) => B): (m: Maybe<A>) => Maybe<B> {

return function morphism(ma) {

return ma.fold({

just: (a) => { return new Just(fn(a)) },

export function bind<A, B>(fn: (a: A) => Maybe<B>): (m: Maybe<A>) => Maybe<B>

return function morphism(ma) {

return ma.fold({

export function zipWith<A, B, R>(fn: (A, B) => R): ((ma: Maybe<A>, mb:

Maybe<B>) => Maybe<R>) {

return function(ma, mb) {

</> </>

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Programming culture puts code before humanity.

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Programming culture is hurting people.

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Programming culture is turning people away.

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I love coding...

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I love coding...because I love creating.

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Anime fandoms

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The Big KISS

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Learning to code

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My own KISS dolls!

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KISS doll portfolio + blog

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Xanga + LiveJournal design

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Website designs

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WordPress

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I learned to code in a way that made me love it.

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Cross-platform products & games

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Sketching

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User flow

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Make stuff!

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Programming isa means to an end.

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Programming isartistic.

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Programming iscreative.

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Programming isn’tthe most important thing

in the world.

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Celebrate what gets made.

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You don’t haveto love code to be a

programmer.

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Websites

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Apps

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Games

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Clothing

Photo by Brady Dale for Technically Brooklyn

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Food

Photo by Brady Dale for Technically Brooklyn

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Books

technolojie.com

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Robots

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Programming tools

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Use code tomake things you love.

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Keep your mind active with side projects.

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Stay true to who and what you want to be.

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In summary:● You already are a real programmer.● Focus on the project, not the tools.● Side projects are important.

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Tips for creative programmers:

● Start on paper.● Define the goals for your project.● Pick whatever language & framework will

make your project happen.● Cut your project into small chunks.● Celebrate what you’ve made! Don’t get stuck

on what you couldn’t make.

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Go out there & make cool stuff!

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Thank you.Questions?

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