Free Crash Course - Writing code that writes code that writes code
Details
Join our Back End Engineering instructor, Gavin Stark (https://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Tampa-Bay/members/1412901/) will present on the idea of writing code that writes code along with our Student Engagement Manager, Holly Valenty (https://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Tampa-Bay/members/215169340/), to learn more about The Iron Yard (http://www.theironyard.com/).
Overview
We'll discuss metaprogramming, writing code that writes scripts for us, and finish in a demonstration of writing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe game in an essoteric language where code is written as images.
Outcome
The Outcome is “Learn about strange programming languages you never knew existed”
Requirements
Come as you are with a laptop or pen and paper, if you would like to take notes.
Agenda:
• Why write code that writes code?
• How do you do that in Ruby?
• Strange Languages
• Unbeatable Tic Tac Toe
• Piet, a language of images
We will have beverages and light snacks.
Stick around for networking and Open Code (https://www.meetup.com/The-Iron-Yard-Tampa-Bay/events/qjfsklywjblc/)!