Put open source to work
July 16–17, 2018: Training & Tutorials
July 18–19, 2018: Conference
Portland, OR
Anjana Vakil

Anjana Vakil
Engineering Learning and Development Lead, Mapbox

Website | @AnjanaVakil

Anjana Vakil is Engineering Learning & Development Lead at Mapbox. Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. Talk to her about functional programming, language design and implementation, and speech technology and ask her about Mozilla, Outreachy, and the Recurse Center. She can usually be found in San Francisco—that is, when she’s not traveling the world trying to share the joy of programming and make the tech community more diverse and accessible.

Sessions

11:50am–12:30pm Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Mary had a little lambda: A live dive into the lambda calculus
Live coding
 Location: Portland 252
Level: Beginner
Anjana Vakil (Mapbox)
Average rating: ****.
(4.36, 11 ratings)
The lambda calculus lets you represent your programs—all their logic and data—as pure, anonymous functions. Booleans, numbers, operators, control flow, data structures. . .lambda can do it all. Anjana Vakil leads a live-coding deep dive into the lambda calculus, demonstrating the computational power of the almighty little lambda, an abstraction fundamental to functional programming. Read more.