DevDay Chennai June 2018

Agenda
11:00am - Asynchronous foundations in JS to understand Promises - Vijayabharathi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijayabharathi-balasubramanian-7b078518/)

This talk takes the audience through some of the fundamentals of asynchronous javascript events and how they are handled. This includes the Web API and event loop to give them a strong foundation. And then "Promises" are introduced as one of the ways to handle asynchronous javascript events. This is an important takeaway for the user as most of the web API are now Promise based APIs (such as geo locator, fetch API and service workers).

12:00pm - Getting Functional With Elixir - Athira Mukundan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/athira-mukundan/)
Elixir is a concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). The talk will give you an introduction to the why, when and how of functional programming through Elixir. By the end of the talk, you’ll understand some of the core concepts of functional programming, as well as what makes Elixir unique. As a result, you’ll have a better understanding for the types of problems that functional programming can help you solve, and you’ll be ready to install Elixir and start writing code in a functional style.

1:00pm - Networking and Lunch