Teaching Software to Tango

A talk given to the NYIT summer camp for high school students – how I think about coding, and about life as a developer.

Transcript

1. TEACHING SOFTWARE TO TANGO Aidan Feldman
2. HELLO!
3. QUESTIONS • What are you up to? • What do you like about programming? • What’s hard? • What do you want to know about?
4. WHAT’S HARD? • Setup • Syntax • What the heck is a variable? • n, or n+1? • Frameworks
5. • Instructions • Logic • Conditions and edge cases • Abstractions
7. MANAGING COMPLEXITY
8. • Like writing: grammar is only a tiny piece • Organization • Design • Teamwork
9. CODE IS LIKE POETRY
10. “If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”
11. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR ROBOT http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
13. THANKS! Aidan Feldman aidan.feldman@gmail.com