Dealing with Fear: a Primer
Lightning Talk
One of the things we encounter both as developers and human beings is fear. Fear is one of our most natural reactions to uncertainty and the unknown. But how could five minutes help us learn how to deal with the fear we experience as developers? Craig Maloney will talk about some source of fear, recognizing where fear appears, and some tips for embracing the fears we're facing.
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Craig Maloney
Craig Maloney has been interested since he learned about them in the World Book Encyclopedia. His addiction continued through the Atari 8-bit computers and various Linux and UNIX-based machines. He's straddled the gamut between system administrator and developer since the 1990s and currently uses Python for his professional development. His current obsessions are game development and game design for both video and tabletop games. He is also the author of The Mediocre Programmer, a book to help intermediate programmers through the difficult process of transforming from beginning programmers to more advanced programmers.