Engineering You • Martin Thompson • GOTO 2017

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2017. #GOTOcon #GOTOams
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Martin Thompson - High-Performance Computing Specialist

RESOURCES
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ABSTRACT
What are the characteristics of a good software engineer? It's a topic many people would argue endlessly about. This is not surprising given we are effectively living in the era of software alchemy. Some of the best programmers draw on strong scientific and engineering background and combine this with craft like coding skills in a virtuous feedback cycle.

In this talk we explore the individual practices and techniques that can help bring out the engineer in you. [...]

TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
0:25 A software system can best be designed if the testing is interlaced with the design, instead of being used after the design
3:53 How many generations of programmers have we?
4:51 Welcome to the era of Software Alchemy
9:02 "Software Engineering"?
14:18 On the cruelty of really teaching computing science
15:24 Earlier scientific examples are the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics: later technological examples are the atom bomb and the contraceptive pill
18:54 Uncomfortable Truth
22:21 Programming Paradigms
30:01 Research Papers
35:49 Experimentation
41:34 Lines of code spent
41:59 Removing lines of code is good, but removing variable state is even better!
43:08 Don't feel bad... We are living in the era of Software Alchemy

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