Kotlin Kome Back

Please come join us on 23rd October for 2 great talks suitable for both Kotlin Newbies and Ninja alike. Thanks to our friends in the Belfast Kotlin User Group for partnering on this event, here is their corresponding event page https://www.meetup.com/kotlin-belfast/events/273793845/.

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Talk 1 - “Programming is hard: lessons through the eyes of a noob”
Speaker - Adele Carpenter (@iam_carpenter)

When did you learn to program? Do you remember the child-like thrill of typing in some text in the command line and making the computer do something? The feeling of endless possibility?

Programming might not be magic, but it can definitely feel magical. But the more magic you need to scrape away, the harder it gets. Let’s face it, programming is hard. Once we’ve been doing it for a while, perhaps with a dash of Stockholm Syndrome, we forget how much pain growth we have gone through to get where we are.

So what might you know, but have forgotten that you ever learned it? In this talk, I will share my experiences of working on a software project as a freshly-minted software engineer. I will detail what I struggled with, where everyone around me just kind of “knew”. At the end of this talk, you will have a noob perspective on how fundamental some software fundamentals, or “knowns”, really are.

Adele is a software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam, where she is working on backend systems for the educational sector. Most of her work day is spent in the JVM/Spring ecosystems. Adele got the coding bug later in life but since then has been making up for lost time, going from command line noob to employed software engineer in just one year. Her experiences both in and out of tech have given her a unique perspective on the art of programming together with humans, which she hopes is useful to other humans who program with humans.

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Talk 2: “Building a RESTful Ktor app with Mongodb Atlas”
Speaker - Ian Arbuckle (@IanArbuckle_)

In this session, Ian will demonstrate how to use Mongodb Atlas, a cloud database service, within a Ktor app. Are you tired of configuring a database all by yourself and want to code what matters? This talk is for you!

Ian is a mobile app developer specialised in Android with experience in the Travel industry. He has success in building features for a white label product solution for airlines, OTAs and TMCs. He is constantly learning new technologies and adapting to new ways of working. He enjoys spending time traveling, reading and engaging in activities such as football and fitness.

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