Talk - "Lerning to rite gud!" by Abi Sutherland - 19:00, Thu 29/10
We'll post a YouTube Premiere link in Slack (and on our calendar) shortly before the talk is scheduled to begin. Once the talk livestream has finished, join us in Discord for questions with the speaker!
Tech isn't just about writing code for computers to interpret - you need to write for those pesky humans too. But not everyone gets taught how to write in any structured way. It's usually just "go write something and hand it in". (Often followed by, “no, not like that!”) Which is a shame, because there are actually specific step-by-step methodologies for writing for humans!
I’m a working information architect, and I’ve been teaching my techie colleagues to write for a couple of years. It’s not about writing perfectly (there isn’t any such thing). It’s about writing better, and feeling less anxious while doing it.
My talk will break down the process of writing into three steps, each of which I’ll explain in sensible and approachable terms:
- Planning
- Writing
- Editing
This talk focuses on technical writing, which covers everything from quite long documents to code comments, but much of it is useful for any context where you need to get information from your brain into someone else’s as easily as possible.
Virtual Games & Cake - 19:00, Fri 30/10 - HackSoc Discord (The Pod)
Join us in adapting our age-old Boardgames and Cake to a virtual setting in our Discord server, where we check in with each other and play games including Jackbox and Uno!
Unfortunately, we can’t bring and share cake, but we can make our own and post them on Slack.
