Speaker
Description
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed”, said the great photographer Garry Winogrand. The genius of his work lies in his phenomenal powers of attention - his ability to see. Seeing is a deliberate act.
What do programmers “see”? How well do we do it?
I suspect that our world of software development is so full of intention that we fail to pay attention.
I want to pursue this, and I want to light up a potential dimension in programming that I haven’t seen explored. For example: why is it that a story or photograph can be about something, but we never hear of a computer program that is about something? Is it not possible? Or have we just missed it? We’re all familiar with love poems and love songs - could a "love program" exist? What would it look like?
I think we can answer all those questions in interesting ways, that connect programming to our understanding and appreciation of the world and our arts. I think that they can suggest new opportunities and ideas to us. It might not make us better programmers, but it could help us become more interesting ones.
Session author's bio
I am long-standing contributor to communities, events and projects in the Python/Django world, including several editions of African PyCons. I am a director of engineering at Canonical, where I lead documentation practice.
| Social Media | @EvilDMP@mastodon.online |
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| Level of Difficulty | Beginner |