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Talk 1: Can Great Programmers Be Taught?

Speaker: John Ousterhout, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

Abstract: People have been programming computers for more than 80 years, but there is little agreement on how to design software or even what a good design looks like. As a community, we talk a lot about tools and processes, but hardly at all about design.
In this talk, I will describe my recent work to identify and communicate a set of software design principles, including ….

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Talk 2: Recognizing Code that Resists Unit Testing

Speaker: Jon Reid, iOS Technical Agile Coach

Abstract: Developers writing for Apple platforms often struggle with unit testing. “Here is my code. I don’t see how to write a unit test for it.” When this happens, the code is trying to raise a red flag about its design. There’s something about it that resists testing.
In this talk, you’ll learn what kinds of dependencies make testing difficult and what to do about them. We’ll do this by considering …

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