RubyFuza 2015

As Developers we often have certain perceptions of our heroes in developer communities and some of these shape what we think we should aspire for ourselves and why we are presently capable or incapable of different things (contributing to your favorite open source project or framework e.t.c.).

In doing so we become constantly trolled by Tech's invisible monsters though there exists an infinite learning continuum.

However we ought to learn how to become philomath Developers as it a less draining path to eternal gratification and happiness as Developers.

Transcript

1. Technical Intimidation Yet Another Talk
2. I'm From Kenya Hi, I'm Jackie!
3. I Tweet At : @Imkatim
4. About Me - Developer - Hearts -RubyFuza Newbie
5. I Work Here ...
6. Why I'm I Even Here?
7. Are passionate about Ruby Rubyists ...
8. Want to get better Rubyists ...
9. Decisive on wanting to make a difference Rubyists ...
10. Short Story ...
11. Pascal
12. Much Source Code
13. Burn!!
14. Human Compiler
15. Cost Of Access
16. Community
17. Met Developers
18. Even More ...
19. And More ...
20. Fraud :-(
21. ActiveRecord Active Models Active Support Active Job Active Mailer? Action Mailer Rails Huhs ...
22. Democratization Of Knowledge
23. Blogs Community forums Open Source Projects on Git Koans Rails for Zombies Hackety Hack Code School and many more References Everywhere
24. So much to learn ... so little time Reality
25. REPEAT Learning Treadmill Learn -> Adapt -> New Discovery -> Feel Inadequate
26. Popular Languages
27. As Rubyists .. Do We All Know All Of Ruby?
28. Matz DHH Yehuda Katz Tenderlove Some Of You ... Gorby ¯\_( )_/¯ But They Know Everything ...
29. KILL YOUR HEROES!!
30. You Are Not Alone "If technology is getting you down, gentle developer, you are not alone.It is easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff out there in the world wide web ...” Chris Morris
31. Mailing Lists “... good way to understand like where people are at, what people are talking about. You don't need to necessarily understand everything that is going on. I know there is definitely threads that I don't even read because I'm like WHAAT?” Zachary Scott
33. ... Knowing EVERYTHING is IMPOSSIBLE Learning EVERYTHING is IMPOSSIBLE Programming is HARD because
34. It's easier to express a design in syntax after its full understanding but the inverse is arduous. Programming is HARD ...
35. Problem Solving ... “We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.” Dijkstra
36. How Do We Learn?
37. Polyglot ...
38. "A lover of learning." The need to learn is inevitable focus on the process not just the object of it. Philomath ...
39. 1. Contributing to open source 2. Sharing on forums/challenging views 3. Initiatives to teach code 4. ... Intimidation Creates Barriers To Involvement
40. 1. Fear 2. Infinite wait 3. Don't know how to get started WHY?
41. Experienced Developer ... 1. Cut yourself some slack 2. Mentor ... Mentor ... Mentor 3. Share as much as you can
42. 4. MINSWAN
43. New Developer ... 1. Find a community 2. Take risks 3. It's ok to fail but learn from failure
44. 4. Find A Mentor
45. Last Thing ... “Software Development is a co-operative enterprise, spanning the generations. Its the passing of the torch from student to teacher to student, a community of minds...” Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmos (Edited Quote)
46. FIN!
47. useful links: Contributing to Ruby" - Zachary Scott : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZFzSOlqBQ "Technical Intimidation" - Chris Morris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkrt_S6a58 The Humble Programmer" - Edsger W. Dijkstra : https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html: