The Art of Programming - Laracon Online Winter 22

Talk presented at Laracon Online Winter on February 9, 2022.

Talk Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq-yHAwYjQ&t=29013s

Transcript

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2. A Brief Story
   

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8. Programming
   Is it Science or is it Art ?
   

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9. Let's go back to
   the early days
   

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10. Margaret Hamilton
    Project Apollo
    

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11. "Software during the
    early days of this
    project was treated like
    a stepchild and not
    taken as seriously as
    other engineering
    disciplines, such as
    hardware engineering;
    and it was regarded as
    an art and as magic,
    not a science."
    Margaret Hamilton
    

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12. What is Art?
    

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13. "Works produced by human
    creative skill and
    imagination."
    Oxford Dictionary
    

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14. “The object of art
    is not to reproduce
    reality, but to
    create a reality of
    the same
    intensity.”
    Alberto
    Giacometti
    

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15. “Art is not meant to be
    perfect, because it is made
    by humans and we're not
    perfect either.”
    Mom
    

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16. Key Aspects of Art
    ● Creativity and imagination
    ● Depicts an alternative reality
    ● Not meant to be perfect
    

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17. Demystifying Art
    ● Not an adjective
    ● Doesn't need to be good
    ● Doesn't need to be beautiful
    

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18. A word about
    creativity…
    

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19. “It lives on because it appeals to romantic
    prejudices about invention. There is a myth
    about how something new comes to be.”
    - Kevin Ashton, "How to Fly a Horse"
    The Creativity Myth
    

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20. Now back to
    software
    

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21. "I began to use the
    term 'software
    engineering' to
    distinguish it from
    hardware and other
    kinds of engineering.
    It was an ongoing
    joke for a long time.
    They liked to kid me
    about my radical
    ideas"
    Margaret
    Hamilton
    

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22. Software Engineering: the truth
    ● Still very young
    ● Strongly based on trial-and-error
    ● Tests can't be considered mathematical proof
    

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23. Programming Languages
    are Building Blocks
    

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24. Going Vanilla
    

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25. Using a Framework
    

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26. The Rest is Up to You!
    

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27. Programming is Art
    built on top of Logic.
    Art & Science
    

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28. To be an
    Artisan…
    

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32. The Artisan Way
    

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33. “Don’t think about making art, just
    get it done. Let everyone else decide
    if it’s good or bad, whether they love
    it or hate it. While they are deciding,
    make even more art.”
    Andy Warhol
    

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34. Thank you!
    @erikaheidi
    eheidi.dev
    

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