Talk Night

Women and femme coders will talk about more advanced topics in programming. This time we'll have two talks and one shorter lightning talk.

The agenda for the evening:

7:00pm - Start: get yourself a drink and a snack

7:20pm - Community Announcements

7:30pm - [lightning talk] Playing games with Gosu, by Franziska Wittinger

A brief introduction into the Gosu framework, to show how simple it is to program games in Ruby with it.

7:45pm - [talk] The 15-minute automated test framework, by Rhian Lewis (https://twitter.com/rhian_is)

Automated acceptance tests are easier than you think! This demo will show you how to code a quick framework using Cucumber and Capybara from start to finish in just 15 minutes.

8:05pm - Break

8:25pm - [talk] Finding the right partner is hard! -- Optimization with python, by Francisca Schlesinger (https://github.com/Zissi)

Together with "Über den Tellerrand" we organize a language exchange for refugees and anyone else. During these events we create a space where people can teach, meet and learn from each other. For this we created a website to match people into optimal language pairs using puLP. I will introduce you to solving optimization problems using this python library.

About the speakers:

Rhian is a freelance software developer in test with experience writing Ruby test frameworks for corporate clients in Berlin and London. Also co-developer of the cryptocurrency portfolio tracker http://www.countmycrypto.com

Francisca studied Biological Sciences in Kaiserslautern and Köln (where she also got her Masters doing genetic research on stingless bees). She then came to Berlin last year in October where she started a Phd, but quit that in
April and now works as a Python and Django developer at momox since May. She's been developing in python for about 5 years.

Franziska (Franzi) grew up in Hamburg. Before she finally made the jump to Berlin, she studied Economics in the one-horse town St. Gallen, Switzerland. In her first job, founding a Start-up for a German media company, she was working closely with a handfull of engineers developing an Android and iOS app. During this phase she started programming Ruby for the first time, which was almost a year ago.