Jon Skeet - Crash, bang, wallop: miscellaneous lessons from exploring a drum kit

*** Please note that this event will not take place in person - this is going ahead online via Zoom ****

Jon Skeet - Crash, bang, wallop: miscellaneous lessons from exploring a drum kit.

Last summer I bought an electronic drum kit. I'm thoroughly enjoying playing it (badly) but I've spent even more time talking to the kit over a USB MIDI connection, in an application which allows you to load, edit and save the drum kit configuration. Personal projects are always fertile grounds for learning and reflecting, unburdened by deadlines and other external forces.
This session will look at specific aspects of the (C#) code - particularly mutability and efficiency - but more importantly, we'll reflect together on the nature of personal projects and how we can use them to become more effective in our professional coding lives.

(Drumming not included, for everyone's benefit.)

Bio: Jon Skeet is a Staff Software Engineer at Google, working from the London office on the Google Cloud Client Libraries for .NET. He's probably better known for his contributions on Stack Overflow and his book, C# in Depth.