the creative programmer - codess seattle 2015

@cattsmall@cattsmall


● Product Designer at SoundCloud

● Game maker w/ Brooklyn Gamery

● Event organizer & teacher

● Lover of making things with code!

A little about me:


Technology isa thing now!


More marginalized people in tech


Great perks!


Makers, not just consumers


That’s awesome!


It’s not all joy & joyness.


Programming education can be hostile.


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...


HomeworkI don’t have

time to do all this at home!


Expensive books

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


Confusing tutorials

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Imitation & hacking


Programming education has high barriers to entry,

low barriers to frustration.


Programming culture often celebrates code

over creativity.


Hierarchy of languages

PHPJava SQL C++ASP.NET

JS C#Ruby Objective C

Python


Hierarchy of frameworks

JS

Angular EmberBackbone

Node ReactIO


“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) {

</> </>


Programming culture puts code before humanity.


Programming culture is hurting people.


Programming culture is turning people away.


I love coding...


I love coding...because I love creating.


Anime fandoms


The Big KISS


Learning to code


My own KISS dolls!


KISS doll portfolio + blog


Xanga + LiveJournal design


Website designs


WordPress


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


Cross-platform products & games


Sketching


User flow


Make stuff!


Programming isa means to an end.


Programming isartistic.


Programming iscreative.


Programming isn’tthe most important thing

in the world.


Celebrate what gets made.


You don’t haveto love code to be a

programmer.


Websites


Apps


Games


Clothing

Photo by Brady Dale for Technically Brooklyn


Food

Photo by Brady Dale for Technically Brooklyn


Books

technolojie.com


Robots


Programming tools


Use code tomake things you love.


Keep your mind active with side projects.


Stay true to who and what you want to be.


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


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.


Go out there & make cool stuff!


Thank you.Questions?

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