Pre-West Prep: Dan Lidral-Porter

March 21, 2015

Talk: Generating Art in Many Worlds

Dan Lidral-Porter's talk at Clojure/West is about computer-generated art in Clojure.

Background

Dan's talk is about his solution for creating interesting art while live coding. Since there's a huge space to explore, you don't want to make your audience watch all the boring parts of the exploration. His solution is to be able to see the art ahead of the audience so they don't have to see it unless you've discovered it's interesting.

Check out some of his generated art. He's also the creator of this very cool ClojureScript + Om + Zelkova app for exploring Magic: The Gathering decks.

About Dan Lidral-Porter

GitHub - Twitter

This post is one of a series called Pre-West Prep, which is also published by email. It's all about getting ready for the upcoming Clojure/West, organized by Cognitect. Conferences are ongoing conversations and explorations. Speakers discuss trends, best practices, and the future by drawing on the rich context built up in past conferences and other media.

That rich context is what Pre-West Prep is about. I want to enhance everyone's experience at the conference by surfacing that context. With just a little homework, we can be better prepared to understand and enjoy the talks and the hallway conversations.

Clojure/West is a conference organized and hosted by Cognitect. This information is in no way official. It is not sponsored by nor affiliated with Clojure/West or Cognitect. It is simply me (and helpers) curating and organizing public information about the conference.

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Pre-West Prep: Elango Cheran

March 21, 2015

Talk: Exploring Programming Clojure in Other Human Languages

Elango Cheran's talk at Clojure/West is about writing Clojure in other spoken languages.

Background

I once heard someone from Poland say that they didn't mind so much that programming languages are mostly English-based. They compared it to classical music, where most terms are adapted from Italian. It's just part of learning the craft.

That said, making basic English a pre-requisite is a huge burden for the would-be programmer. Being able to write code using terms from your own language and characters from your own language could go a long way to making programming more accessible. Elango claims that Clojure is well-suited for the task because it has macros. That's intriguing.

Read his blog post about using unicode characters in Clojure. It introduces clj-thamil, a library for wrapping built-in Clojure with Thamil equivalents.

About Elango Cheran

Homepage - GitHub - Twitter

This post is one of a series called Pre-West Prep, which is also published by email. It's all about getting ready for the upcoming Clojure/West, organized by Cognitect. Conferences are ongoing conversations and explorations. Speakers discuss trends, best practices, and the future by drawing on the rich context built up in past conferences and other media.

That rich context is what Pre-West Prep is about. I want to enhance everyone's experience at the conference by surfacing that context. With just a little homework, we can be better prepared to understand and enjoy the talks and the hallway conversations.

Clojure/West is a conference organized and hosted by Cognitect. This information is in no way official. It is not sponsored by nor affiliated with Clojure/West or Cognitect. It is simply me (and helpers) curating and organizing public information about the conference.

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