###Beautiful Code - Zeeshan Lakhani
This workshop/session is about movies & coding styles, patterns, and kickass abstractions. Finshed products, apps, and prototypes are what we use, read about, and teethe over, but the day-to-day making/building/running/testing of a project is, at times, frustrating, tedious, and vacuous (sometimes all at once). For some, including myself, coding was thought of as a means to an end… an assumption that was wrong.
We'll also talk about pattern-matching, macros, types, closures, refactoring, and really making code open-source.
Code by itself almost rots and it's gotta be rewritten. Even when nothing has changed, for some reason it rots.
-Ken Thompson
####Influence
Jonathan Edwards - Beautiful Code
####Links To Elements
Albert Brook's Real Life, in 3D
Little Bit of Rust Memory Management on my Mind
####Bio
A child who became a filmmaker who became a musician who became a coder who then actually began to really love coding.
Here's a formal bio.
Things made (via collaboration/personal/work):
Marksy -> Chrome Extension that converts amongst text formats
Reuters Mobile -> worked on API
DirectMeNYC -> Census Search App for NYPL Labs
What's On the Menu? -> Historical Menu Crowdsourcing App for NYPL Labs
What's on the Menu - API -> API doc for first public-facing data service from NYPL
I'm storing all Code, Examples, Useful Libs + Notes for Session on Github. Check for updates.