Improving the user experience and accessibility of development

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1. Improving the user experience and accessibility of development @Gaetan_lalanne from @ArollaFr Ncrafts 2017
2. Who should code ? No one ? “Few people have the aptitude to become programmers” (Random person on the internet) Everyone ? President Obama Wants Every Kid To Learn Coding The answer is : anybody that wants to code
3. When do you need code ?
4. Why do people code and how hard is it ? For fun For money To make high quality usable software
5. Who do you need to make good software ? Google’s preconceived idea : Google’s actual conclusion (Project Aristotle) : ‘‘conversational turn-taking’’ and ‘‘average social sensitivity’’
6. Improving accessibility of development work Change the management & the culture : self management, agile, ethics, purpose driven instead of profits oriented Make the work better : usable software, livable software (@sarahmei)
7. Improving the accessibility of usable software Need to shift from what to how What : How : Personal craftsmanship, DDD, mentoring, tooling (IDEs, compilers)
8. The case for human programming
9. To sum it up Everybody’s welcome ! Need diverse people with diverse skillsets Not everybody needs to code, but everybody should be able to take up coding Be conscious of your own biases. Personal or technical. Work together. Mentor. Pair with your peers, and not only developers. Be excellent to each other.