Breaking into the tech ecosystem

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1. Breaking Into The
   Tech Ecosystem
   Developer hacks with Amarachi Amaechi
   

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2. Speaker Bio:
   Amarachi Amaechi
   ● Front-End Developer
   ● Campus
   Ambassador@Ingressive
   ● Student@Nnamdi Azikiwe
   University
   

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3. Why Is Tech Important?
   

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4. Though miles apart, we can stay connected, thanks to technology.
   

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5. The facilities of online education and the availability of interactive media have
   made the process of learning so interesting.
   

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6. Owing to technology, businesses grew and so did employment opportunities.
   

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7. Modern electronic equipments have been discovered which have improved
   the quality of treatment people receive at the health institutions, thanks to
   technology
   

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8. we owe our luxurious lives to technology.
   

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10. Seeing the evolution of technology
    overtime, we can agree that technology
    has become a very integral part of our
    daily life as humans in the twenty-first
    century.
    

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11. Tech roles for people from any background
    You can actually begin a journey to explore the tech
    world even if you have never written a single line of
    code. Just follow a few steps outlined here to gain
    traction and information.
    

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12. ● Reading and listening
    ● Engage in tech meetups/conference
    ● Seek out a mentor
    ● Find tools/resources online
    ● Make your mark / immerse yourself
    

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13. Blogs
    ● Medium
    ● Dev.to
    ● scotch.io
    Newsletters
    ● Forloop
    newsletter
    Podcast
    ● Forloop
    podcast
    ● Code newbies
    .
    READING AND LISTENING
    

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14. Engage In tech meetups/conference
    ● Forloop Africa which is one of the largest
    growing community for developers in
    Africa
    ● GDG- Google developer group
    ● ALC – Andela learning community
    ● Facebook developer circle
    

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15. Seek out a mentor
    ● Codementor.io
    ● Codingcoach.io
    

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16. Find Tools/ Resources Online
    ● W3schools
    ● Codecademy
    ● Freecodecamp
    ● EDX
    ● Coursera
    ● Khan academy
    ● Codewars for code challenge
    

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17. Make Your Mark / Immerse Yourself
    Connect / network
    ● Twitter
    ● Instagram
    ● Linkedln
    ● Facebook
    ● Stackoverflow
    

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19. The best way to predict the future
    is to create it, and we can do that
    with technology.
    

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20. Thank you for listening.
    

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21. Connect with me
    Twitter:
    @AmarachiAmaechi
    

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