A Practical Approach to Error Handling

Arno Schoedl

online
60 minute session
intermediate
advanced
13:00-14:00, Friday, 15th July 2022

Every program may encounter errors, some originating from internal bugs in the program, others coming from the environment the program is operating in. Ignoring all errors will make the program utterly unreliable, while treating every conceivable one introduces lots of extra complexity with little benefit. At think-cell, we have been using and refining our own principled approach to error handling, which we have not seen elsewhere. This talk describes our method, so that in your next project you can write more reliable software with less effort.

error handling
exceptions

Arno Schoedl

think-cell Founder & CTO

Arno is responsible for the design, architecture and development of all our software products. He oversees think-cell's R&D team, Quality Assurance and Customer Care.

Before founding think-cell, Arno worked at Microsoft Research and McKinsey. Arno studied computer science and management and holds a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization in Computer Graphics.