When
9:45 AM Saturday
Where
SmithWick
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 6th and 7th, 2012session
Programming Style and Your Brain
unassigned
About This Session
Computer programs are the most complicated things that humans make. They must be perfect, which is hard for us because we are not perfect. Programming is thought to be a "head" activity, but there is a lot of "gut" involved. Indeed, it may be the gut that gives us the insight necessary for solving hard problems. But gut messes us up when it come to matters of style. The systems in our brains that make us vulnerable to advertising and propaganda also influence our programming styles. This talk looks systematically at the development of a programming style that specifically improves the reliability of programs. The examples are given in JavaScript, a language with an uncommonly large number of bad parts, but the principles are applicable to all languages.Time: 9:45 AM Saturday Room: SmithWick
The Speaker(s)
Douglas Crockford
Discoverer , Virgule-Solidus
Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is also the author of _JavaScript: The Good Parts_. He has been called a guru, but he is actually more of a mahatma.