Skateboarding & Programming

“Skateboarding is an art form based on the interpretation of space”

“Your ability to do tricks is like a vocabulary. Using that language of tricks, you can communicate with the stuff you find in the streets and turn it into something else”

All programming languages have a standard library -- a standard set of tools developers compose together to express their solution to a problem.

Much like programming, skateboarders compose whatever small set of building blocks they have at their disposal to express themselves to the world around them.

Transcript

1. Skateboarding
2. –Henry Edwards Woods “Skateboarding is an art form based on the interpretation of space”
3. –Ben Powell “Your ability to do tricks is like a vocabulary. Using that language of tricks, you can communicate with the stuff you find in the streets and turn it into something else”
4. Standard Library
5. ollie
6. kickflip
7. heelflip
8. shove_it
9. frontside_shove_it
10. Higher Order Functions Composition over Inheritance
11. switch(heelflip)
12. nollie(kickflip)
13. fakie(kickflip)
14. backside(kickflip)
15. frontside(heelflip)
16. Named Functions Convention over Configuration
17. shove_it(360, kickflip)
18. backside(180, backside(360, shove_it))
19. frontside_shove_it(kickflip)
20. Expressive
21. frontside(180, nollie(kickflip))
22. backside(360, kickflip))
23. switch(frontside(360, heelflip))
24. frontside(180,frontside(360, shove_it(heelflip)))
25. Community Driven DIY or DIE
29. Freedom of Expression Different Approaches, Same Goal