ForwardJS 2016

a.k.a VIM con?

Created by Brian / @yagoogaly

Real Quick

I made this presentation with reveal.js

it's the best

Good Talks

How Your Brain is Conspiring Against You Making Good Software

• Psychology applied to Software Development
• Talked a lot about cognitive biases
• Referenced a lot of good books
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Nudge
  • Malcolm Gladwell

React Native: Learn from my mistakes

• RN comes with components, or you can easily find some
  • awesome-react-native
  • js.coach/react-native
• Use flexbox
• Test on real devices
• Navigation is apparently more complex than it seems so be careful
• React dev tools extention wont work, sorry

Generating GIF Art with Javascript

Of course, there is a library for it

Workshops

React and D3

Create readable, reusable D3 code by building it into a React component

Practically Functional Programming

Starting from square one with functional programming

What if we were tought computer science from a functional perspective instead of an object oriented one?

What is functional programming?

• functions that map input to output
• for the same input always return the same output
• functions are composable, they can be chained together

Further reading

• Wikipedia
• Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming