Venkat Subramaniam, “An FP and TDD Approach to Conway's Game of Life"

HFPUG meetings are hybrid, meeting online and in-person at PROS. See our website at https://hfpug.org for complete details and Zoom info. Every month we have a presentation followed by socializing.

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In this highly interactive, live-coding presentation you will participate in devising a functional solution to the popular program and along the way uncover aspects of test-driven development (TDD) and thinking in functional style.

Bio: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., an instructional professor at the University of Houston, and the creator of the dev2next conference. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at https://www.agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at [venkats@agiledeveloper.com](mailto:venkats@agiledeveloper.com) or on twitter/X at @venkat_s.