Want an introduction to computer coding in preparation for the film Zero Days? Join us for a free coding basics workshop with web developers Laura Kressin and Carl Peaslee.

Our cyber networks—including malware such as the Stuxnet computer virus featured in the film—are built with complex and sometimes heavily sophisticated computer code. During this short workshop, participants learn some coding basics such as how to write your own Javascript code as well as see live examples of what code can do and how it works. Meet in the Art Lab before the screening in the Walker Cinema.

About the Speakers

Walker web developer Laura Kressin’s specialty is front-end development, though she also works on back-end code and dabbles in the Internet of Things. A graduate of Prime Digital Academy, she is fluent in the coding languages HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, AngularJS, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, Sass, GruntJS, Git, Clojure, and PHP.

Carl Peaslee is a full-stack and front-end developer with more than five years experience in the web development industry. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and is “obsessed with writing about and coding for drones.”