How I Built the World's Okay-est Battlesnake • Matthew Gilliard • Devoxx Poland 2022

What was mobile gaming like in 2002? The only game I was playing back then was Nokia Snake. Battlesnake is simply a fresh take on the classical with a multiplayer last-snake-standing* mode, and the best bit is that you don't control your snake by pressing tiny telephone keys but by providing code that plays for you.
This talk covers remainder APIs, fun algorithms and fresh Java features to show how I built an absolutely average Battlesnake that occasionally slithers its way to victory. But it's not about winning, or even about taking part - it's about having a safe space for learning fresh tech, and we'll besides talk about effective learning strategies and how to apply them in and out of work.
* OK snakes don't stand, I know.

Lecture took place on Friday, 24th June 2022 at 15:50 in area 4A

Matthew is simply a Developer Evangelist for Twilio, helping developers to learn and enjoy building all kinds of things. He loves gathering and learning from the programming community at conferences, meetups and hackathons.
When not at work, you might find him at a local meetup, teaching kids to code, or distant from computers hiking and moving in Southwest England, playing bass guitar or just relaxing with a good horror movie.
Past lives include hacking on public cloud infrastructure, teaching English to highschoolers and a full lot of Clojure and Java.

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