Introduction to Dart (Language Primer and Hands-on)

Abstract:

The inaugural meeting of the Silicon Valley Dart Meetup will feature two talks. First up is yours truly to give an introduction to Dart, its motivations, and its philosophy. The second talk will feature Adam Coding giving us a step-by-step code walk through of a simple client/server application written in Dart.

When:

February 29 from 6pm-9pm

Where:

GooglePlex, 2375 Garcia Avenue, Room Beacon Rock

Tentative Schedule:

6:00 pm to 6:30 pm - Registration

6:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Networking/Food (Thanks Google)

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

• Introduction to Dart with Seth Ladd

• A Step-by-step code walk through of a simple Client/Server Application with Adam

8:30 pm to 9:00 pm - Wrap-up

Speakers:

Seth Ladd:

A Web engineer, father, husband. Currently a Developer Advocate at Google. Produced Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails and Web Development Conference (http://alohaonrails.com/).

Produced New Game, the conference for HTML5 game developers (http://www.newgameconf.com/).Way back, wrote Expert Spring MVC book (http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Spring-Flow-Experts-Voice/dp/159059584X). Helped release Angry Birds for the web (http://chrome.angrybirds.com/).

On the board for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (http://www.interactive.org/).

Adam Coding:

Adam has been a Software Engineer for 10 years working for a casino game manufacturer in Las Vegas. He was involved in every aspect of development from game logic design to frontend and backend development, and was a key participant in various inventions and patents. Adam runs the San Francisco Dart Meetup, and has been very active in the Dart community through his Google+ posts: https://plus.google.com/104569492481999771226/posts