The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

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  • čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
  • Software and technology has changed every aspect of the world we live in. At one extreme are the ‘mission critical’ applications - the code that runs our banks, our hospitals, our airports and phone networks. Then there’s the code we all use every day to browse the web, watch movies, create spreadsheets… not quite so critical, but still code that solves problems and delivers services.
    But what about the code that only exists because somebody wanted to write it? Code created just to make people smile, laugh, maybe even dance? Maybe even code that does nothing at all, created just to see if it was possible?
    Join Dylan Beattie - programmer, musician, and creator of the Rockstar programming language - for an entertaining look at the art of code. We’ll look at the origins of programming as an art form, from Conway's Game of Life to the 1970s demoscene and the earliest Obfuscated C competitions. We’ll talk about esoteric languages and quines - how DO you create a program that prints its own source code? We’ll look at quine relays, code golf and generative art, and we’ll explore the phenomenon of live coding as performance - from the pioneers of electronic music to modern algoraves and live coding platforms like Sonic Pi.
    Check out more of our talks, courses, and conferences in the following links:
    ndcconferences.com/
    ndc-london.com/
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  • @zeitgeisttv5312
    @zeitgeisttv5312 Před 4 lety +10615

    This guy is a great orator/storyteller/and probably DnD master

    • @mythopoeic8236
      @mythopoeic8236 Před 4 lety +81

      Yesssss thank you

    • @snom3ad
      @snom3ad Před 4 lety +141

      to be fair, he's also a great singer.

    • @kool141
      @kool141 Před 4 lety +26

      Check out Critical Role here on CZcams if you like DnD :)

    • @lafondawilliams
      @lafondawilliams Před 4 lety +49

      @@snom3ad i was like what singing, glad i stayed to the end lmao

    • @PablofMorales
      @PablofMorales Před 4 lety +37

      I died and resurrected with this comment,

  • @degerertenerten7307
    @degerertenerten7307 Před 4 lety +3294

    if you are a bit into programming, math and some philosophy, this young man will gift you an hour that you will not compare to anything in your life. Salute you Dylan. My deepest respects.

    • @haroldfinz4863
      @haroldfinz4863 Před 4 lety +43

      you said it better than anything I was able to come up with.

    • @coldheartednique6411
      @coldheartednique6411 Před 3 lety +5

      Agreed

    • @shabdasingh8954
      @shabdasingh8954 Před 3 lety +2

      ikr

    • @SK-ck9qu
      @SK-ck9qu Před 3 lety +9

      Will not compare to anything life? Don't you think that is kind of strong statement. How about making love to a gorgeous supermodel?

    • @degerertenerten7307
      @degerertenerten7307 Před 3 lety +17

      @@SK-ck9quhahahaha is there any proof that supermodels make great love?

  • @JonesySurvived
    @JonesySurvived Před 3 lety +1759

    "Taking lightning and sticking it in a rock until it learns to think" has to be the single greatest description of computers ever. Bravo to the orator!

  • @sergeboisse
    @sergeboisse Před 3 lety +3375

    In the early 1980's i created many programs on a TI-59 programmable calculator that often took hours or even days to complete. I then put an AM radio receiver close to the calculator, and by carefully tuning it, I was able to listen to the electronic "music" of calculation, and I could tell, just by hearing, in which loop the program was looping into, and how far it was from achieving its final task. That was a truly artistic moment.

  • @Megabushbuck
    @Megabushbuck Před 3 lety +1816

    This is not a talk it's a performance.

  • @deadshxll
    @deadshxll Před 3 lety +2840

    this dude really sang in his own programming language

    • @hazalstella656
      @hazalstella656 Před 3 lety +110

      I can't believe i just spend an hour watching this amazing talk! Absolutely perfect talk!

    • @MQXM001
      @MQXM001 Před 3 lety +55

      If that's not a flex, I don't know what is

    • @deadshxll
      @deadshxll Před 3 lety +4

      @@MQXM001 ikr

    • @srtghfnbfg
      @srtghfnbfg Před 3 lety +63

      He not only sang, he played guitar and displayed the parse tree of the program he was singing right under the code he wrote in his own programming language XD

    • @realking2184
      @realking2184 Před 3 lety +11

      "they called me a mad man"

  • @jadenirina9649
    @jadenirina9649 Před 2 lety +70

    Not a programmer but this presentation is truly a piece of art

  • @AlambushaShukla
    @AlambushaShukla Před 2 lety +229

    This lecture will never get old. I've watched it 4 to 5 times in past 1 year. Every time I see it, it entertains like a movie and yet has the ability to impart knowledge!

    • @lior_haddad
      @lior_haddad Před 2 lety +4

      So have I, it's executed incredibly well.

    • @tejavathpavan1673
      @tejavathpavan1673 Před rokem

      Can u help mee

    • @gunarcom
      @gunarcom Před rokem

      currently watching for the 3rd time in so many years

    • @shail0124
      @shail0124 Před 6 měsíci

      @@gunarcomcan you please tell me what it teaches you? Should I
      watch it or not?

    • @lukkkasz323
      @lukkkasz323 Před 4 měsíci

      @@shail0124 It depends if it's for you or not.

  • @stefan_popp
    @stefan_popp Před 3 lety +629

    *Complexity from simplicity*
    4:39 Game of life
    9:58 Mandelbrot set
    *Art from code*
    17:45 Deep dream
    22:07 Using software to create art
    *Code as art*
    24:48 Artistic (obfuscated) code
    27:49 Quines (programs which print their own source code)
    36:40 Esoteric coding languages
    41:33 Code to sound languages
    46:37 The Rockstar language

  • @MrSigmaSharp
    @MrSigmaSharp Před 4 lety +1906

    6 years of university studies and another 6 years of practical computer development and I have never seen many of the things shown in this video. I have just shared it everywhere. Amazing content.

    • @Vscustomprinting
      @Vscustomprinting Před 4 lety +48

      me: "okay, ima watch my first coding video.."

    • @connorgaughan9117
      @connorgaughan9117 Před 4 lety +10

      Daniel Reynolds I started 2 days ago 😂

    • @TheMrIndiankid
      @TheMrIndiankid Před 4 lety +2

      @@Vscustomprinting same here :D

    • @Comakino
      @Comakino Před 4 lety +20

      @@TheMrIndiankid This might not be the best place to start xD

    • @eapo
      @eapo Před 4 lety +4

      Don't worry, you are just young. We were born with these, you were born with something else ;)

  • @chuygamer2734
    @chuygamer2734 Před 3 lety +265

    I think the coding presentation was just an excuse to bring his guitar playing skills into action. BRAVO!

    • @superpj
      @superpj Před 2 lety +7

      That's the first Bill and Ted movie guitar too..

    • @stephclements6226
      @stephclements6226 Před rokem

      brunel jasques atune waltz beach1z!! 2redbelzenz fishbass...

  • @JH-wg7xe
    @JH-wg7xe Před rokem +106

    The auroboros quine is actually mindblowing.

  • @asherael
    @asherael Před 3 lety +1200

    I can't believe the audience wasn't floored by Conway's Game of Life running in a computer made in Conway's Game of LIfe

    • @AndresMartinez-ep5tt
      @AndresMartinez-ep5tt Před 3 lety +163

      most likely they all are senior programmers and have seen it before

    • @TheCookiePup
      @TheCookiePup Před 3 lety +51

      It was a pretty viral youtube video a few times, a looping version of it with epic music

    • @Lunsterful
      @Lunsterful Před 3 lety +128

      As Andres said, I'm a senior dev and I've seen almost all of this before, including having read Hoftstaeder, etc. There were some genuinely new things that were interesting/inspiring, but he can't expect developers to be new to most of this. Don't get me wrong, this was a great presentation and we need more like it. As the non-programmer commenter said, "I've never written a single word of code in my life and was absolutely enthralled by this from start to finish."

    • @definesigint2823
      @definesigint2823 Před 3 lety +12

      @@TheCookiePup Ah, that explains why some people laughed early (first time for me, I backed up the video trying to figure out how they knew so fast)

    • @TheCookiePup
      @TheCookiePup Před 3 lety +17

      @@definesigint2823 That or they saw it coming anyway because they were thinking "as above, so below" or in this case "as within, so beyond"

  • @TheJjedele
    @TheJjedele Před 4 lety +1802

    This must be the most epic talk I've ever seen!

  • @jacobkamen9265
    @jacobkamen9265 Před 2 lety +87

    The Rockstar fizzbuzz was awesome. A culmination of all the preceding layers of software and art packed into one performance

  • @seenundercygnus6870
    @seenundercygnus6870 Před 2 lety +25

    I love how you can hear the passion and fascination of the person in the crowd with the distinct laugh.
    It makes me happy. It's how I feel about music theory, so I can relate.

  • @DELPHIIII
    @DELPHIIII Před 3 lety +1338

    I've never written a single word of code in my life and was absolutely enthralled by this from start to finish. Brilliant, thank you.

    • @gabrielsroka
      @gabrielsroka Před 3 lety +36

      Have you ever sung any 80s heavy metal songs?

    • @Ludabeat
      @Ludabeat Před 3 lety +3

      @@gabrielsroka hahahahah

    • @MrTeathyme
      @MrTeathyme Před 3 lety +19

      as someone whos been coding for almost two decades, i was equally as enthralled.
      This is the kind of stuff that made me fall in love with coding to begin with.

    • @IDK-kv8ob
      @IDK-kv8ob Před 3 lety +1

      @Amon Duul dude. Hell yea. Thank you. In gonna go down the list one by one. See you in 20 years!

    • @rederdex
      @rederdex Před 3 lety +4

      I started to learn to code 6 months ago, and I'm getting more and more surprised by what computers and coders can do in general. This was an amazing watch!

  • @Ali-lt1kb
    @Ali-lt1kb Před 4 lety +2681

    When you want to become a rockstar but your mom makes you learn programming.

  • @jonirampo4796
    @jonirampo4796 Před 3 lety +42

    I often have doubts about what i am programming, but this speech gave me confidence to program just what i like, whether it's silly or not.

    • @ledumpsterfire6474
      @ledumpsterfire6474 Před 2 lety +3

      It's a creative endeavor as much as it is anything else. There's absolutely no reason not to treat it as such. It can be an outlet like any other.

  • @matijavuk9468
    @matijavuk9468 Před 3 lety +64

    ok, I'll need to re-watch this several times, one of the most fascinating thing I've seen on youtube in this age of entertainment consumerism.

  • @vinayseth1114
    @vinayseth1114 Před 4 lety +920

    TED speakers could learn a thing or two from this presentation.

    • @danstermeister
      @danstermeister Před 4 lety +31

      TED has devolved into adult Speech and Debate competitions.

    • @Mystery207
      @Mystery207 Před 4 lety

      You must be able to pour coke without no one knowing what you’re pouring ? Or do you mean know your shit vs know you’re shit. Hehe 😉

    • @Hals
      @Hals Před 3 lety +8

      They don't learn, too busy hearing themselves talking

    • @vinayseth1114
      @vinayseth1114 Před 3 lety +13

      @@Hals Hm true in many cases perhaps. But I still believe that there are genuine learners who talk at TED, as well. Hope we get to see more of them and less of the vain narcissists-a problem plaguing pretty much all digital domains today I guess!

    • @oisin678
      @oisin678 Před 3 lety +5

      Most TED talks are a complete waste of time. I have no idea why they are seen as any sort of standard.

  • @connerallen642
    @connerallen642 Před 3 lety +416

    "I got hooked because I made the computer do what I wanted"
    The exact reason I got hooked on coding myself. The unrecognized power behind just a keyboard is absolutely amazing in my opinion.

    • @connerallen642
      @connerallen642 Před 3 lety +7

      @Some exactly. That feeling right there is why true coders love coding.

    • @firmware-jh5vk
      @firmware-jh5vk Před 3 lety +3

      @Some And the more you learn about the internal of the system, it becomes pure addiction.

    • @Southpaw101
      @Southpaw101 Před 3 lety +2

      Same here , just seeing whatever you had in mind work exactly the way u thought is a beautiful feeling

    • @ninjamonkey2251
      @ninjamonkey2251 Před 3 lety

      That makes one of us. I have never gotten a computer to do what I wanted outside of a small amount in the Roblox studio because every tutorial and teacher I have found is rubbish and no engine I've found so far is intuitive enough to just figure out on my own.
      Got a solution?

    • @Explosivo55
      @Explosivo55 Před 3 lety +3

      when you are shit at life an escape into what the keyboard can bring you is a no brainer

  • @deimia6536
    @deimia6536 Před 3 lety +54

    You know if every single university professor made these kind of lectures I would be in uni forever.

  • @milobanks9407
    @milobanks9407 Před 2 lety +11

    The audience did not clap nearly as much as they should've. Amazing presetation/timing/performance!

  • @PeterMoueza
    @PeterMoueza Před 3 lety +981

    Personal bookmarks shared :
    A timeline :
    3:47 contrast 4:44 game of life 7:00 grow 10:00 butterfly effect 11:00 complex (breadcrumbs : quaternions) 12:04 ? diagram 14:15 Mandelbrot 16:38 (always different) but self similar 17:48 Tron 18:25 Jurassic Park 18:40 character 19:20 Friends avatars 19:50 clouds shapes patterns CNN 20:45 dog vs muffin 21:20 Deep Dreaming 22:15 ART 22:45 Flutter dev 23:00 generative art (breadcrumbs : generative programming) 24:59 Knuth books (breadcrumbs : Mathematica) 25:45 Obfuscated CLI Flappy Bird 27:12 game in URL 27:30 JS 27:50 Obfuscated contest (breadcrumbs : virus) source code recursion C# 27:37 string templating (breadcrumbs : grammar ... FSM) 30:34 HTML Quine 32:30 prints itself 32:40 C 33:00 Ruby 33:50 Py Perl ... PolyQuine 34:22 Ada ... Uroboros Quine language 35:45 fractal text 36:35 Github Actions 36:50 Shakespear text Hello World ! 38:06 Whitespace 38:36 Souffle in Chef (breadcrumbs : CSP + COP) 2 domains 39:47 Piet (mix) cross rules 16 bit art Hello World 42:30 snowflake processing (never repeated anywhere) 43:03 Sonic Pi music language (breadcrumbs : CCRMA ) live loop (breadcrumbs : Pharo) 46:15 live coding 46:40 HE Rockstar programming (words songs) : rock song compiled to something 48:42 Flutter 49:02 Json 50:29 Pi ex 51:10 arithmetic 52:20 Github refs 53:10 Issues fix requests 54:36 Rockstar in JS 55:12 Logo 55:50 guitar song live demo

    • @billionaireno1
      @billionaireno1 Před 3 lety +5

      wow man thank you

    • @PeterMoueza
      @PeterMoueza Před 3 lety +3

      @@billionaireno1 You're welcome... so interesting !

    • @arnerademacker
      @arnerademacker Před 3 lety +34

      @@PeterMoueza Some people don't believe in semicolons. You don't seem to be believing in newlines. :D

    • @subhradipporel285
      @subhradipporel285 Před 3 lety +3

      thanks man

    • @maleck25
      @maleck25 Před 3 lety +10

      Thank you Peter for this timeline. Great job and also great altruism of yours. The more we dig into the internet and the more accessible this virtual world becomes, the more certain I am of the existence of numerous good people out there who anonymously and freely sacrifice their own time to save hundreds of people's time. We definitely work better if we work together.

  • @altunbikubra
    @altunbikubra Před 3 lety +305

    I have missed listening to such a good speaker. They are really rare.

    • @jordansabourin4978
      @jordansabourin4978 Před 3 lety

      "This thing beat me!"
      I'm that bad at chess, too.

    • @kdk6572
      @kdk6572 Před 3 lety +4

      I can't believe i just spend an hour watching this amazing talk! Absolutely perfect talk!
      Kesinlikle :)

  • @viridianite
    @viridianite Před 2 lety +42

    ToC (with new newlines!)
    00:00 Introduction, Logo programming
    4:44 Conway's Game of Life (GoL)
    7:14 Can you create patterns that will grow infinitely in GoL?
    10:00 Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Effect
    10:40 Imaginary numbers
    11:40 Complex numbers (e.g., Argand diagram)
    14:12 Mandelbrot
    14:55 The Mandelbrot set
    16:35 Self-similar shapes
    17:51 Tron (and CG movies)
    19:40 Pareidolia
    20:16 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
    21:27 A new kind of art
    21:36 Deep Dreaming (CNN technique)
    22:16 Robert Felker and generative art
    24:54 Code as an art form in its own right
    25:05 Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)
    25:45 A safe haven for obfuscated and poorly-written code
    26:08 Flappy Bird in obfuscated C
    26:36 The Mandelbrot Set in obfuscated C
    27:00 Playable chess game in obfuscated JS (< 1 kb)
    27:40 Program that prints its own source code
    28:28 Quines
    29:30 Quines in C#
    30:00 Quines in JS
    30:31 Can you make a quine in HTML?
    32:37 C, Ruby, Python and/or Perl code?
    34:06 Polyquines
    34:18 The Ouroburos quine
    36:40 The Shakespeare programming language
    38:05 The Whitespace programming language
    38:34 The Chef programming language
    39:42 The Piet programming language
    41:37 Live demos and snowflakes structures/entities
    43:00 The Sonic Pi programming language
    43:38 Quick demo of Sonic Pi: Fizzbuzz Riff Edition
    46:40 The "rockstar" developer trope
    47:10 The Rockstar programming language
    48:16 Hello World in Rockstar
    48:24 Variables and assignment in Rockstar
    49:08 Douglas Crawford, JSON creator
    49:24 Types of variables in Rockstar
    49:45 Numeric literals in Rockstar
    50:37 PI in Rockstar
    50:51 Arithmetic in Rockstar
    51:18 Comparison in Rockstar
    51:32 Functions in Rockstar
    52:20 Introducing Rockstar to the world
    54:32 Rocket interpreter in JS
    54:48 Rockstar logo
    56:05 Dylan performs Fizzbuzz in Rockstar live

    • @novitrix9671
      @novitrix9671 Před rokem +2

      Solid effort ty

    • @wit2817
      @wit2817 Před 6 měsíci +1

      "with newlines!" LMFAO

    • @Dazed_04
      @Dazed_04 Před 5 měsíci

      You should also edit it to say
      "For people who like to take the fun out of things" after the with newlines tag

  • @mikedoroshenko881
    @mikedoroshenko881 Před 3 lety +294

    best programming video. CZcams has been recommending me this for like half a year and here I am.

    • @paulojose7568
      @paulojose7568 Před 3 lety +31

      Ive ignored this recommendation so many times, but i finally watched it know... And it was a damn good recommendation
      Does youtube know what i like more than i know? xD

    • @yalord5378
      @yalord5378 Před 3 lety +1

      me too man

    • @jodazague8333
      @jodazague8333 Před 3 lety +4

      @@paulojose7568 Unironically? yes

    • @THEMATT222
      @THEMATT222 Před 2 lety +1

      Relatable

    • @homelikebrick42
      @homelikebrick42 Před 2 lety

      Same

  • @kubastachu9860
    @kubastachu9860 Před 3 lety +83

    Started watching this with "oh, another hour talk that could be condensed into 5 minutes of specifics". Quickly changed my mind. Definetly worth watching.

  • @gabrielisuekebho880
    @gabrielisuekebho880 Před rokem +21

    I just found out that programming languages can be used like this. The fact that programming languages that do silly things and create unimaginable things(ART) is mind boggling and the rockstar programing language is awesome.

  • @gnarfgnarf4004
    @gnarfgnarf4004 Před 2 lety +6

    "The thrill has never gone away."
    Amen brother.

  • @cdelaorden
    @cdelaorden Před 4 lety +532

    This will be a classic talk in the years to come: thought provoking, informative, funny stuff being superbly delivered.

    • @ithaca2076
      @ithaca2076 Před 3 lety +2

      I absolutely love it!

    • @shabdasingh8954
      @shabdasingh8954 Před 3 lety

      @Angelo DeLuca yeah me too I am shocked how one hour flew by.

    • @Sarimae23
      @Sarimae23 Před 3 lety

      Fully Agreed, No Doubt.

  • @DavesGarage
    @DavesGarage Před 3 lety +173

    The first two minutes are the best description of discovering the love of coding that I've heard.

    • @quetzapollo
      @quetzapollo Před 3 lety +2

      litterally the smarter of us made sand learn play Minecraft. Alchemy and witchcraft are just annoying bitches bitchung about stitching stiches in a meadow of itches. Do That!

    • @Epinardscaramel
      @Epinardscaramel Před 2 lety

      I think learning LOGO in school awoke something in me as well 😊

    • @iskandar5321
      @iskandar5321 Před 2 lety

      @@Epinardscaramel u
      Oooooniioozzzo😊😆😆🎫😇🙄🥲🎎🎅🚣🏿‍♀️🤽🏿🥝🍖🧈

    • @sbjncn
      @sbjncn Před 2 lety

      how do i become a unethical hacker? do i have to learn how to be a ethical hacker first?

  • @raijinnathanmatthews8092
    @raijinnathanmatthews8092 Před 2 lety +3

    My favourite talk I’ve found on the internet. What a brilliant man. What a brilliant world we live in.

  • @retrokoala5325
    @retrokoala5325 Před rokem +12

    I had just started coding 7 months ago, and I've seen this video once a moth since my first "Hello World". Every time I recap this awesome lecture, I discover something new and understand something intrinsic about the topics. Just awesome

  • @itsjustboarsley
    @itsjustboarsley Před 4 lety +415

    I was unaware they made Conway's game of life out of Conway's game of life. Blown away at like 10 minutes in.

    • @brianh.000
      @brianh.000 Před 4 lety +5

      That was pretty astounding.

    • @djtbone001a
      @djtbone001a Před 4 lety +14

      Programs writing programs and their own source codes, Codeception. We must go deeper.

    • @SaMusz73
      @SaMusz73 Před 3 lety +2

      Conway's RIP video of ElJj czcams.com/video/9Hpy6MKM-J8/video.html in FRENCH, sorry if you don't speak it, (there might be subtitles, or request them if you need them) is a must seen about the Game of Life and some (about 10) of Conway's majors mathematical ideas .

    • @ishikani
      @ishikani Před 3 lety +2

      @@djtbone001a have you heard of the code that writes itself through 128 languages? yeah, that's pretty cool.
      Edit: nevermind, he did reference it

    • @ithaca2076
      @ithaca2076 Před 3 lety +1

      Same!

  • @janstehlik8713
    @janstehlik8713 Před 4 lety +564

    I love this guy! 17:22 "We invented computers, which means taking lightning and sticking it into rock until it learns to think.."

    • @freeman9586
      @freeman9586 Před 4 lety +16

      I think that is a exurb1a quote

    • @proxy1035
      @proxy1035 Před 4 lety +17

      @EramSemperRecta i mean same with us. we just react to whatever our sensors are outputting and our previous experiences with things, be that something that happend 5 years ago or 5 seconds.
      The Human brain is really complex, no question, but it isn't magic. Computers and the Human brain are both based on the rules of the universe, so why shouldn't computers be able to do the same as a brain?

    • @javiersolisbolivar3339
      @javiersolisbolivar3339 Před 4 lety +2

      @EramSemperRecta no yet...

    • @Dongdot123
      @Dongdot123 Před 4 lety +5

      @EramSemperRecta Yeah? Why do you think we have the same basic construct of carbon? Why didn't carbon atoms or molecules just stay as they are? It's an order from chaos that basically portrayed by people making the conway's game of life. A banana is a banana. So does many variety of bananas, they are their own.

    • @javiersolisbolivar3339
      @javiersolisbolivar3339 Před 4 lety +13

      @EramSemperRecta dear Sir, everything change, by evolution, engineering or extinction. Artificial Intelligence is just inevitable.
      But is normal to have a hard time trying to understand scales bigger than our lifetime.
      for example you talk about bananas being the same in a billion years. Only a thousand years ago the bananas you find in the supermarket doesn't exist, the bananas of our time had been developed by selecting seeds and species , and that process continue today, we try to develop fruits more resistant to plagues, that grow faster, use less water, etc.
      And if bananas change in less than a thousand years, what a computer will be in 1000 years is totally away of our imagination.

  • @f.d.3289
    @f.d.3289 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Once you begin delving into Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming", you'll quickly realize that programming is, indeed, an art. Even though it's nearly half a century old, even though it uses outdated computer models and languages, it still never fails to amaze me. Knuth is a genuine genius.

  • @TeoAl
    @TeoAl Před 2 lety +5

    A whole hour of absolute joy. This man is brilliant!

  • @ard-janvanetten1331
    @ard-janvanetten1331 Před 3 lety +277

    This video got me into programming again. Halfway into the first year of computer science college, loving it.
    Thank you.

    • @monemperor1559
      @monemperor1559 Před 2 lety +22

      god on you isaac! maybe you can program a physics engine for your laws of motion

    • @chaotickreg7024
      @chaotickreg7024 Před 2 lety +10

      Thank you Newton, please write the next great physics engine for us.

  • @DimitriGigot
    @DimitriGigot Před 4 lety +136

    I can't believe i just spend an hour watching this amazing talk! Absolutely perfect talk!

    • @simonmasters3295
      @simonmasters3295 Před 4 lety +1

      I loved Hofstadter and GEB.
      This is next level. Respect

  • @muddaurth5825
    @muddaurth5825 Před rokem +2

    Everything about this lecture is Absolutely Fascinating. This video has a better explanation of Conway’s Game of Life than Veritasium.

  • @TheMehranKhan
    @TheMehranKhan Před 9 měsíci +5

    this was the best one hour of my life, i've never been more focused on someone's presentation than this guy, you're amazing.

  • @joeharrison8571
    @joeharrison8571 Před 3 lety +152

    One of the best talks i've ever seen, after delivering a flawless presentation like that for almost an hour of course you deserve our indulgence at the end

  • @DineshSomu
    @DineshSomu Před 3 lety +188

    "If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." - Alber Einstein. You sir, you explained it to even a fool like me, and this fool able to get it.

    • @iracingtf5051
      @iracingtf5051 Před 3 lety +3

      Did he really say that though?

    • @DineshSomu
      @DineshSomu Před 3 lety +9

      @@iracingtf5051 Yes, I saw this quote with his picture in the background. So, must be true 😛

    • @byrospyro4432
      @byrospyro4432 Před 2 lety +10

      Einstein never said this, Richard Feynman come up with a learning technique where you explain an idea in a simple way to someone in order to understand, but Einstein never said that quote ever lol.

    • @ASLUHLUHCE
      @ASLUHLUHCE Před 2 lety +1

      Didn't say it. If in doubt check Wikiquote

    • @bonbondojoe1522
      @bonbondojoe1522 Před 2 lety +1

      Are you a 6yo tho

  • @MrWaterbugdesign
    @MrWaterbugdesign Před 2 lety +26

    29:00 A program that prints its own source code reminded me of my first project in Programming 101 in college about 40 years ago. The project was to use Apple Basic on an Apple II to write a program and document the program in a flowchart. I thought flowcharting was dumb so I wrote a program that would create a flowchart of itself. Self documenting. Professor was a little pissed.
    Flowcharting was replaced with adding comments as programs became way too complex to make flowcharting useful. Add comments were largely replace with the reality that comments often mismatch code as code is changed and comments remain. But I still use a lot of comments but mostly as brainstorming.

    • @everettlwilliamsii3740
      @everettlwilliamsii3740 Před 2 lety +1

      There is this global disdain for COBOL, but there are COBOL programs that are still running, basically untouched for over 40 years. If a programmer is careful with their variable names (spending enough time in the Data Division), COBOL can be essentially self-documenting, saving an extra step. I have always believed in paragraph documentation, where you write a paragraph describing what a procedure or block of code is intended to do and then add in descriptions of any particularly tricky techniques that are used therein. Line by line comments are essentially useless to any but the totally clueless and if they are that clueless, they don't belong in there in any case.

  • @chibuzor_
    @chibuzor_ Před 2 lety +14

    Now, this is one of the best presentations I've listened to in a while. What an amazing speaker...was hooked in at every minute!

  • @GoddamnAxl
    @GoddamnAxl Před 3 lety +61

    can't believe i watched the whole thing..that was 1 hour of my life! and it was damn worth it!

  • @sanches2
    @sanches2 Před 2 lety +2

    Me and my best friend got together for a week to work on our year end projects and wasted half the week by playing with Winamp visualization studio and came up with some strange equations, which made really great animations and images. Best procrastination adhd episode i've ever had :)

  • @MBTIMemes
    @MBTIMemes Před 3 lety +170

    when CZcams recommended this to me I had no clue what this video possibly could've been about, and I also had no clue that watching this 1 hour video to the end definitely wouldn't feel like 1 hour at all :o

    • @llamasarefluffy6270
      @llamasarefluffy6270 Před 3 lety +1

      OMG why are you here lol I watch your vids

    • @CharmPeddler
      @CharmPeddler Před 3 lety

      I read your message and I had to verify for myself because it really didn't feel like an hour at all!

  • @andrewferguson7859
    @andrewferguson7859 Před 4 lety +115

    I was introduced to “Hello World” when I entered college and took my first programming course. Pascal was all the rage at the time and we all got a taste for “ type it in, it will work.” It didn’t for most and confusion over ‘ and ` was the issue.
    I have worked un software development for decades and seen my share of interesting talks. This one, pardon the pun, Rocks.
    Thank you.

    • @eeddmm99
      @eeddmm99 Před 4 lety

      I too was duped into paying for the PL experience, After Fortran and Pascal I was about as useful as Betamax, However it was very useful when I took other PL's because of the logic.Dylan is very entertaining and a knowledgeable source of information.

  • @themannyzaur
    @themannyzaur Před 3 měsíci

    I regret not watching this video a few years back when CZcams recommended this to me
    Then I am glad i finally made time to watch this
    If you're reading this and have been putting this video off for a long time, this is your cue to give this video a watch
    An absolute gem of a video

  • @asuka_the_void_witch
    @asuka_the_void_witch Před 3 lety +1

    this is one of the best talks i've ever seen. DEAR GOD the genius of this man and other coders

  • @andrewrich6905
    @andrewrich6905 Před 4 lety +82

    Do you know what makes this presentation amazing, except this guy's skills? The fact that it is full of visualizations...that's how our brain understands!

    • @peterg5383
      @peterg5383 Před 4 lety +3

      actually, there are different paths to understanding; visualization is only one of them.

    • @andrewrich6905
      @andrewrich6905 Před 4 lety +10

      @@peterg5383 i think that the final part is to visualize every idea...you can use metaphors,similes, analogies but in the end ,in my opinion, everything is converted into an image

    • @peterg5383
      @peterg5383 Před 4 lety +6

      @@andrewrich6905: maybe for you. different people are different. not everybody is like you.

    • @robin_birdie_
      @robin_birdie_ Před 4 lety +1

      @@peterg5383 excuse me, that's bs.

    • @nathanepimetheus8530
      @nathanepimetheus8530 Před 4 lety +1

      Perhaps what Peter g is referring to are blind people.

  • @vorpal22
    @vorpal22 Před 3 lety +25

    I'm a programmer with terrible ADHD such that it takes me three hours to watch a 30 minute TV show, but was so enrapt with every second of this brilliant video that I couldn't look away.

  • @RevolverSnake412
    @RevolverSnake412 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I still until this day repeat this wonderful presentation, I watched it for the first time with a limited knowledge in computer science, and yet I loved it. and now as a junior software engineer, I love it even more than before

  • @nullcheque
    @nullcheque Před 2 lety

    I've skipped over this video in my recommendations for months. Glad I finally watched, this is amazing.

  • @kbrnsr
    @kbrnsr Před 3 lety +32

    The talk is amazing by itself, but the ending is what makes it legend

  • @n3rcn3rc
    @n3rcn3rc Před 3 lety +21

    Fabulous! I started professionally in Fortran in 1963 and ended up as the CIO of two federal departments. He captures the joy and power of coding!

  • @SolidIncMedia
    @SolidIncMedia Před 2 lety +24

    This was an amazing talk. Well put together, full of surprises, full of languages I forgot existed. Well done!

  • @cccomputerchannel629
    @cccomputerchannel629 Před 6 měsíci

    This talk will never grow old. I will show this to my grand children in 40 years from now to get them into programming :)

  • @mayurravindra9433
    @mayurravindra9433 Před 3 lety +65

    It's high time to thanks CZcams algorithm for recommending me this masterpiece to watch! Happy new year 😊

  • @skywind1403
    @skywind1403 Před 3 lety +11

    Listening to this guy is never boring. He's a great epic storyteller.

  • @muzvid
    @muzvid Před 2 lety +4

    I studied C programming about 30 years ago (DOS was still the dominant PC OS; Windows was a mere shell). I'm thrilled to hear that the Obfuscated C contest still exists!! However, I'm not sure which I'm more impressed by: Mandelbrot code that looks like the Mandelbrot set, or the Game of life played on a computer generated by the Game of life! Both are pretty damned meta. The Uroboros PolyQuine is a real standout as well, but all of these examples are truly awe-inspiring!

  • @eternalheckler
    @eternalheckler Před 3 lety +6

    Watching this has seriously impacted my youtube algorithm recommended videos...I'm not sorry

  • @E.Chizzy
    @E.Chizzy Před 3 lety +11

    This is by far the best talk I have ever watched and I'm confident it will remain for quite a while.

  • @raymitchell9736
    @raymitchell9736 Před 4 lety +35

    Just when I thought I've seen everything... awesome performance at the end, wasn't expecting a musical performance!

  • @goodyfett6427
    @goodyfett6427 Před rokem

    i watch this talk about once a month to not only laugh and smile, but also to humble myself realizing art,science,math and computing are so simple yet so complex at the same time!

  • @BDGKruger
    @BDGKruger Před 2 lety +5

    I was loosing my will to code but I am inspired now. Great, great talk. Thank you 🙏

  • @nevereveravailable
    @nevereveravailable Před 4 lety +12

    On a scale from crazy to genius this guy goes to 11!
    Such a wonderful and unique talk.

  • @gui42cmzx98
    @gui42cmzx98 Před 3 lety +31

    Absolute legend, this conference was incredibly entertaining from start to finish. This guy has such an awesome mind, i love it, thanks a lot for this hour !!

  • @gateCodeKC
    @gateCodeKC Před 8 měsíci +1

    I had just started coding 3 weeks ago. Just barely grasping html & css but already have imposter syndrome and feel so overwhelmed with more things to learn. Thank you for thia beautiful talk. Looks like all my interests point to programming direction.

  • @shasherazi
    @shasherazi Před 3 lety +2

    ok youtube, after recommending me this video for a crazy long time, you win. I'm here now

  • @mejiab19
    @mejiab19 Před 3 lety +143

    This was beautiful! You had me smiling at many different parts of this video from the beauty of combining math, code, and art.

  • @MrLinker44
    @MrLinker44 Před 4 lety +3

    As a begginer programmer this blew my mind all the way to oblivion. I will forever remember this talk thank you so much

  • @jeffbrownstain
    @jeffbrownstain Před 2 lety

    I'm so happy to find people like this among the net.
    Dang introvert creatives gotta stop hiding behind their screens and show the world their work so us plebs can collab with them.

  • @AlexGBY9
    @AlexGBY9 Před rokem +5

    One of the best, most entertaining talks of all times! Makes me want to write the "Game of life" in rockstar and then compile it to JS!

  • @christopherhanel8743
    @christopherhanel8743 Před 3 lety +10

    This was by far the most beautiful "pattern" I saw this year. Thank you for this overwhelming inception

  • @greymatter33
    @greymatter33 Před 3 lety +6

    As an artist, designer, developer, lover of film making, rock music, philosophy and many other thins creative and academic (not to mention rebellious)-this is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen in my entire life. THANK YOU!!

  • @joeangell5652
    @joeangell5652 Před 2 lety

    I know absolutely zero about coding. No idea how this ended up in my suggestions. But one of the BEST talks ever. Fantastic job Dylan!

  • @rahultino
    @rahultino Před 2 lety +1

    If you are ever going to speak in a conference where Dylan is also speaking, make sure you don't get scheduled after him. Absolutely mind blowing YT video. Best 1:00:48 ever spent on You Tube.

  • @SubbingForFree
    @SubbingForFree Před 3 lety +6

    I feel like I just watched an entire movie, complete with the end credit song. Incredible.

  • @kerningandleading
    @kerningandleading Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you, CZcams algorithm and auto-play. I would never have found this on my own and my life is better for it.

  • @user-wn4yj5uk5d
    @user-wn4yj5uk5d Před 6 měsíci

    This entire hour long video explains why we love Computer Science so much

  • @rajeshviky
    @rajeshviky Před 3 lety +6

    This is the most epic stuff I have ever seen in youtube! A perfect amalgamation of Science, Math, Art, Literature, Technology and Programming!

  • @kilo.ironblossom
    @kilo.ironblossom Před 3 lety +8

    My first CZcams 1 hour video that I didn't skip for a second. It was a journey.

  • @Guacamole42
    @Guacamole42 Před 4 lety +15

    Mind blown! Best talk I ever seen on CZcams. Thank you Dylan Beattie, you are awesome!

  • @kevinngetich3784
    @kevinngetich3784 Před 2 lety

    Can't believe this just sat there in my "Watch Later" for over a year.

  • @OrangeDurito
    @OrangeDurito Před 2 lety

    This is astonishingly utterly mind blowing to me. The ingenuity of these people are remarkable. Thank you for this wonderful video!

  • @chunkaifu1284
    @chunkaifu1284 Před 3 lety +56

    He’s gotta be the coolest dude I’ve ever seen in a long time

  • @evgenkonyshock4913
    @evgenkonyshock4913 Před 3 lety +19

    When he drew out a guitar i thought this speak can't be any more epic

  • @peynao
    @peynao Před 3 lety +10

    This is the freakiest programming speech I've seen so far lol
    I love it!

  • @XceptionalBro
    @XceptionalBro Před 2 lety +2

    Easily one of the best talks I've heard, I keep inadvertently coming back at it, and I enjoy it every single time

  • @Yetzederixx
    @Yetzederixx Před 4 lety +61

    So my product manager goes in Slack not two minutes after I finished watching this calling everyone rockstars. Epic.

  • @qoobes
    @qoobes Před 4 lety +86

    Legit one of the best talks i've heard in a while

  • @rosem5062
    @rosem5062 Před 8 měsíci

    This is a multi-talented guy. One of the best lectures I've ever seen.

  • @Disco2FiB
    @Disco2FiB Před 3 lety +4

    Devotion and dedication to his craft is inspiring

  • @douglasmckinley-sr1507
    @douglasmckinley-sr1507 Před 3 lety +25

    Fantastic! Can only appreciate the tons of work that went into preparing the presentation. I distinctly remember the buzz getting my first program to work (1962 using FORTRAN). Now, 58 years later, just got the same buzz programming a simple game in C#. BTW - Donald Knuth "The Art of Programming" - totally brilliant books.

    • @stephclements6226
      @stephclements6226 Před rokem

      frenchdarts froom us2heebeegeebiz resyklorepeetez...bbc...queen ..yuh...!!!!

  • @VinSandGPL
    @VinSandGPL Před 4 lety +20

    Brilliant session every programmer should see !.

  • @TipsyCHUBBZ
    @TipsyCHUBBZ Před 2 lety

    I'm happy i found this today, i've been struggling to find motivation in code lately but this was the spark i needed thank you