Lightning Talk: Values from Puzzles, Math, and Code

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Childhood puzzles translate into concrete developer habits: a knight's tour has 19.6 quadrillion knight's tours yet only found five solutions in exploration, which reframes failure as data not shame. The talk links handmade puzzles and high‑school math to patience persistence perseverance, to treating elusive bugs as puzzles to reproduce and narrow, to valuing iterative discovery over instant correctness, and to checking problems from multiple perspectives when shipping features.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:36How My Experiences Affect Me as a Developer
3. 4:20Patience Persistence and Perseverance
4. 4:39Conclusion

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