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I love this masterpiece of quick fire presentation. Live coding is like speed dating for the normal, boring way of coding. A pioneer or this technique, Dan Shiffman made computing accessible to a new generation of non programmers using first, the Java based Processing language and then its port to Javascript, the P5 library.

Florin does the same for vanilla Javascript, HTML and CSS. It is debatable whether learning to code can ever be considered fun but Dan and Florin come closer to this ideal than many.

The art is to start with nothing or empty files and to create something that is engaging, visually attractive and functional in 5 minutes. You know that, if you could do this, you would ace any interview that you turned up at. Well maybe but it's a damn fine party trick, thanks Florin