Paul Cantrell
Bio
Paul fell in love with programming at first sight on an Apple ][+ and never looked back. He teaches computer science at Macalester College and is a freelance software developer (often with the fine folks at Bust Out).
Living a secret double life as a classically trained composer and pianist, he brings a musician's passion for aesthetics and nuanced detail to the craft of writing software, thus making his bio sound all fancy.
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Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
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This Machine ____s Fascists (fill in the blank)
Minnebar 19 -
What’s the Next GOTO?
Minnebar 17 -
7,777 votes: How we generate the Minnebar schedule
MinneBar 14 -
The (not so) Secret to Hiring Great Junior Developers
MinneBar 13 -
What’s the right way to learn (and teach) programming?
MinneBar 12 -
Thinking Swiftly: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Code
MinneBar 11 -
How to Make a Bonsai Tree out of Math
MinneBar 10
Participating Sessions
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- ✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
- Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
- Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
- AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
- Government’s in the Room. Go.
- Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?