Katie Bell

Katie has been a professional developer for more than 10 years, jumping through ecosystems from a giant Java-writing company (Google) to a tiny Python-based company (Grok Learning) to a Microsoft and .NET company (Campaign Monitor). She's also worked and volunteered in education and helped a lot of rookie coders pull together their first hello world programs, websites and larger projects.


What pronouns do you use?

She/her

What is your Twitter handle?

notsolonecoder


Session

09-05
11:35
25min
Text files full of punctuation? There must be a better way to code.
Katie Bell

As programmers we believe that the true nature of code exists in a text file. A good programmer can construct the magic sequence of characters in their head and their fingers blur as they stream line after line of code into the keyboard without error.

Is this reality? Not even close. There are many problems with representing and editing code in text and we're so used to them just we don't see it.

Main Conference
Python 2 Memorial Concert Hall