Kodsnack 83 - Easy by virtue of travelling the hard way

We chat with Rob Ashton, freelance developer, speaker and recent discoverer of how to learn things properly, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include learning, the plateaus of learning and how to actually do things right to keep evolving and learning. The problems of frameworks wanting to make X easy. Perhaps we should learn about programming in general instead of learning the next big framework in the hope that it will solve our problems without us needing to understand them?

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Rob Ahston
Rob’s keynote from At the frontend
Haskell
Clojure
Rob’s good use of the guitar
Strumming
Deliberate learning
Refactoring to to functional - talk at Øredev by Hadi Hariri
Datagrid
Winforms
ATS
Erlang
Prolog
Recursion
Fold
Haskell generator functions
Polymorphism
gen_server
MUD
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
Latency
Macros in MUDs
Wizards in MUDs
Angular
Angular 2.0 talk
Haskell is lazy
Web forms
npm - the Node package manager
React
Om
Clojurescript
REPL
Flux - Facebook’s architechture style used by them with React
Ember
Bash
AWK
SED
Purescript
Cloud Haskell
Docker

Titles

I haven’t got an elevator pitch for myself at the moment
I’ve become a real person living in the real world
It has changed the way I approach learning
I just build software every single day
Tangible and listenable
A transformative moment
Fingerpicking and scales
Competent throwing things together
I wouldn’t say my day job betters me
Why am I learning this crappy pointer stuff
Deliberate learning
Easy by virtue of travelling the hard way
My day job is mostly Erlang with a hint of C
Erlang is acutally incredibly boring
Lisp with horrible syntax
Things that mutate in the background
The world becomes a happy place
I’ve started writing a MUD in Haskell
And then you die in the next scene
A problem that noone has anymore
It’s good for you imagination
Factory providers and god knows what else
Hate’s a very strong word
The framework ain’t gonna help you
Shortcutting problems
I don’t do prescriptive
Preferable to gouge my eyes out with a spoon
That “wonderful” is sarcastic
It was an abomination
If there is such a thing as good C
Transcoding and cloud nonsense
That’s because you skipped the learning step
Copying and pasting things off of the internet
Shuffling piles of binary around the place