how to be a rock star developer

How to be a Rock Star developerSean Trelford & his dad (@ptrelford)DDD East Anglia, Cambridge 2017

Outline of this interactive slide show

• Rock Star Programmers in the wild

• and Ninjas, Boy Scouts and other analogies

• How to rock your interview

• Guitar 747

• How to rock on the job!

• Literally

.Net literally Rocks

Developers rock guitar (mostly Les Pauls)

Russ Miles Dylan Beattie

But Ukelelesare cool tooA Fun(ctional) music DSL -Domain Specific Languages -to compute Ukulele tabs from chords: Share the chords with Jérémie and he will show you where to place your fingers !

Sam Aaron live codes music with Sonic Pi

NDC Oslo 2015“Sean Trelford, youngest speaker at #ndcoslo, played a guitar intro before diving into F# powering OpenGL” – Liam Westley

“By 7 you are an openstack architect”

A few more developer analogiesSean Trelford & his dad (@ptrelford)DDD East Anglia, Cambridge 2017

Full Stack= Loud Speakers

“Boy” Scouts?

… or the IT Crowd

Guitar 101How to be a Rock Star DeveloperSean Trelford & his dad

Anatomy of a guitar

Rocksmith (or Guitar Hero with a Guitar)

Big Game Hunter: Game in a day

Get the T-Shirt: Let’s start a band

Dazed and Confused Bass Tab

Rocking your interviewHow to be a Rock Star DeveloperSean Trelford & his dad

Make a cool demo

Code Test: Fizz Buzz with if/then/else

for i = 1 to 100 do

let text =

if i % 3 = 0 && i % 5 = 0 then "FizzBuzz"

elif i % 3 = 0 then "Fizz"

elif i % 5 = 0 then "Buzz"

else i.ToString()

Console.WriteLine(text)

Code: Fizzbuzz with pattern matching

for i = 1 to 100 do

match i%3, i%5 with

| 0, 0 -> "FizzBuzz"

| 0, _ -> "Fizz"

| _, 0 -> "Buzz"

| _, _ -> i.ToString()

|> Console.WriteLine

Code Golf: Fizz Buzz evaluated on Twitter

Fizz Buzz in APL

Rocking the job!How to be a Rock Star DeveloperSean Trelford & his dad

Day-to-day Essentials

Rock stars craft their own Instruments

Gibson Buckethead Signature Les Paul

(Played with Guns & Roses, Primus and many others)

Flea Signature Bass

(Red Hot Chili Peppers Bass Player)

Developers craft their own tools

• Write your own framework(s)

• Write your own ORM(s)

• Write your own database(s)

• Write your own programming language(s)

Putting it all togetherHow to be a Rock Star DeveloperSean Trelford & his dad

The Gamma: Data Journalism

The Gamma: Programming Language

Instruments

Hipster Rock Star

This was Spinal Tap

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