After a longer than anticipated break over the summer we're back with two talks in September.
TypeScript for the C# Developer
We're welcoming Peter Shaw for our first talk. Peter is a freelancer
with his own consultancy in the North East of England, a Published
Technical Author for Pluralsight and Syncfusion, and one of the driving
forces behind LiDNUG, one of the most active .NET related virtual user
groups on the LinkedIn platform.
There's little doubt that JavaScript is eating the world these
days, everywhere you look it's JavaScript, from the server through to
the browser.
The problem is, JavaScript is a nasty, horrible unforgiving
language, not at all like our nice strongly typed safe languages, such
as C# and others we use in the back-end and on the server.
Because of JavaScripts popularity, many of us that have spent
most of our Careers in the world of C#, are finding that to stay current
we have to make the move to front-end and the world of JavaScript.
Enter TypeScript. Typescript allows you to quickly get to grips
with the world of JavaScript, while still retaining your knowledge,
skills and most importantly Strongly Typed way of doing things, in this
session I'll show you why as a C# developer you need to seriously
consider using TypeScript, and what the language has to Offer over
Regular JavaScript. Oh and I might even throw in a little bit of
Aurelia along the way ;-)
Adventures with Alexa
Our second talk this month comes from Peter Davies. In his session Peter
will cover session will cover how he built a home-brew Alexa device
with a Raspberry Pi and 2 BBC MicroBits with his kids, and what their
future plans are for it. He'll also delve into writing custom skills for
Alexa.
Peter is Technical Director at Zerolight -
heading up the development of their online media creation service.
Zerolight provides digital, online and VR experiential retail solutions
to the automotive industry. Peter also runs an independent and
not-for-profit coding dojo in Hexham. Previously Peter owned a
web-development and programming services company, has operated as a
freelancer, and began his career in the console computer games industry.
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