Explore DDD 2018 – Denver, Sept. 11-14
You've written in many languages since your first "hello world," but how did you become fluent? And now that you're more senior, how well do your teammates understand the code you write? In this talk, Laura drew parallels between human languages & code and showed how willpower & empathy can improve fluency in both.
Laura dove into the skills and contexts that are needed for learning new languages and ideas and investigated how to apply those to code we write. She mapped the course from an excited beginner to a sometimes world-weary expert; discussed how to respond when a team member says they don't understand our code; talked about the role that working memory & energy play in cohesion, and explored idiosyncrasies from human languages around the globe.
About Laura Savino
Laura is a well-rounded mobile developer who's coded a range of projects, from Khan Academy's large-scale education app to business-to-business custom project management solutions. She draws on her formal background in human languages and pedagogy to bring a fresh perspective to her teams and codebases and maintains an active community presence by teaching and mentoring programmers around the world.
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