The Beauty of the Program, the Happiness of the Programmer
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The talk explores how aesthetic qualities of software—its beauty and elegance—affect developer happiness, arguing that software development combines engineering, science and often-neglected artistic aspects. It examines criteria that make one program more beautiful than another and how that perceived beauty and the way code is written influence developers’ well-being, proposing to challenge common industry assumptions and seek better working practices.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Programmer happiness
- 3:30First programming steps
- 9:15Constant learning
- 12:48Beauty in programs
- 20:55Beauty in software engineering
- 26:34Beautiful code refactoring
- 34:53Creativity in development
- 37:24Software as art
- 41:23Code over text
- 43:14Conclusion
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