Programming is Easy Once You Master....
- 1. Programming is Easy, nce You Master… Twitter: @hellofromTonya @KnowTheCodePro #BeMoreAwesome
- 4. Hello, I’m Tonya • High tech engineering since the mid-1980s • Electrical and software engineer • Technology leader, educator, and author
- 5. I’m on a mission to help you #BeMoreAwesome
- 6. What are my goals in this talk?
- 8. Typical Approach • Go buy a theme. Make changes to it. • Stretch a little bit and take on more • Constantly searching for HOW to do something
- 9. Search for the HOW is a flawed strategy
- 10. Problems with the “Searching for the How” Strategy • It’s time-consuming. • How do you assess if the code is good? • It only gets you part of the way there. • What happens if it causes a problem? Bottomline: It’s costly.
- 12. Let’s talk about how to master programming
- 15. Building the upper floors without a solid foundation
- 16. In software, everything is built from the same building blocks
- 17. Software Does These Things: • Makes Decisions • Does Tasks • Iterates • Remembers
- 20. I’ll go to the Kite Festival if https://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/9643006351 • the weather is good • not working if ( the conditions are true ) then go to the festival
- 21. Fundamentals • Decisions • if, when, else if, else • Remembers • Variable • Tasks • Render, File, Database • Repeats • while, for, foreach
- 24. Combinethe fundamental building blocks to create different experiences…
- 27. Creative Process of Solving ProblemsHow = Ingenuity, creativity, & expertise
- 29. Problem Solving is the process of finding solutions.
- 30. Problem Solving is the proactive and methodical approach to finding solutions.
- 32. Programmatic thought is thinking about how to get the computer to do what you want it to do.
- 33. Knowing what the computer needs fromyou
- 34. Computers are crazy fast but stupid.
- 35. Computers don’t understand code. They understand 1s and 0s.
- 36. Off state -> 0 Power Switch Output Power Source Output Power can’t flow
- 37. On state -> 1 Power Switch Output Power Source Output Power flows to the output Output
- 38. Computers = bunch of switches Output Output Output 0 0 0 1 Output Output Output 1 1 1 0 Output Output
- 39. <?php function maybe_show_top_bar( $is_ok_to_show ) { if ( is_page() && $is_ok_to_show ) { showTopbar(); } } is_page() showTopbar() AND Gate V $is_ok_to_show AND
- 40. Computers don’t think or infer. You do.
- 41. You have to explicitly tell the computer whatto do ANDhowto do it step-by-step.
- 43. This profession demands continuouslearning and proficiency building.
- 44. Your Take-aways
- 45. Programming is easy when you master… • Fundamentals • Problem Solving • Programmatic Thought • Learning
- 46. You can build anything from scratch in code.