Functional Reactive Programming & Virtual Reality

Building VR Web Apps with A-frame WebVR framework and Redux

Today, virtual reality is primarily used as a source of entertainment or an escape from real life. It offers potential for amazing immersive experiences that are changing the way people watch movies and play video games. Javascript developer Cassandra Wilcox (https://twitter.com/CassandraWilcox) draws from her experience building web applications to explore the how VR might be used for productivity on a daily basis. Using open source tools like A-frame WebVR framework, ReactJS, and Google Cardboard, she demonstrates how accessible VR is to web developers and how to get started building your own virtual reality experiences for the web.

Functional Reactive Programming

In this talk, Matt Dupree (https://twitter.com/philosohacker) will introduce rxjs, the reactive extensions library for JavaScript. He'll explain the basic concepts of the library and show how you can use it to avoid callback hell, write elegant asynchronous code, and (if there’s time) implement redux in 2 lines.

Lightning Talks by YOU

If you have something cool you'd like to share with the group but don't feel like putting a talk together, we will open the floor for lightning talks. These are quick, 5-ish minute presentations on anything. Could be a cool library you found, an interesting blog post you read recently or even a new JS framework you heard was good. Slides aren't event necessary - but you can, if you want ;)

C (http://codeschool.com/)isco will be offering dinner.

Free Parking

The GAI Building Parking Garage is free of charge. After 6PM you can park anywhere. If you get there before then, you can still park as long as it doesn't say reserved. Code School is on the 6th floor, out of the elevators to the left.