Lightning Talks - May 18, 8am

Experience the diversity of lightning talks at this conference, covering topics from code documentation and perfect pitch to food waste reduction and teaching children to code.

Key takeaways
  • Importance of documenting code: A speaker shares their experience of finding undocumented code and proposes using flag 2 for Korean language.
  • Perfect pitch discovery: A music school in Japan claims a 90% success rate in developing perfect pitch in children.
  • Counting and coding: A speaker suggests that children should learn to count by using base 10 instead of binary numbers.
  • Food, Python, and learning: A speaker shares their experience of using Python to teach children about coding and even created a cooking game.
  • Sub-interpreters: A speaker discusses the development of sub-interpreters and hopes to make the code more portable.
  • Food and surroundings: A speaker shares their experience of creating a food game and how it relates to learning.
  • Demanding expectations: A speaker shares their experience of dropping out of grad school due to high expectations.
  • Food and economy: A speaker discusses the issue of food waste and how to reduce it using Python.
  • Perfect pitch and music: A speaker shares their experience of learning perfect pitch and how it changed their relationship with music.
  • Teaching perfect pitch: A speaker suggests teaching children to recognize absolute pitch from a young age.
  • Food and poverty: A speaker shares their experience of struggling with food insecurity and how it affected their studies.
  • Food and diversity: A speaker shares their experience of creating a food game and how it relates to diversity and inclusion.