What Happens When Military Veterans Learn to Code

Learning to code is complicated. Between Googling your way and figuring it out on your own, military veterans now have a resource at the ready. Is it an open source project? Is it a community of military veterans learning to code? Is it a community of software developers that want to give back? A coding nonprofit? It's all of the above.

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1. David Molina Founder & Executive Director @davidcmolina Date: 28 June 2016 Code Conference LA 2016 AVALON HOLLYWOOD
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4. Mission: Veteran-founded, and led, Operation Code is on a mission to get active military, citizen-soldiers, veterans and their families coding and building software to change the world. @operation_code
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6. 902 VETERANS SERVED 394 Army 169 Navy 147 Air Force 177 Marine Corps 15 Coast Guard @operation_code
7. ALL BRANCHES REPRESENTED. ◦ Army ◦ Navy ◦ Air Force ◦ Marines ◦ Coast Guard ◦ National Guard ◦ Reserve @operation_code
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9. OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY. ◦ Operation Code is an open source community ◦ Maintained by over a dozen software developers and rising ◦ Opening the source code for the project is meant to empower all developers everywhere to contribute ◦ … and, military veterans to start contributing to open source today github.com/OperationCode @operation_code
10. SOFTWARE MENTORSHIP The Software Mentor Protege Program leverages Slack to provide real-time, peer-to-peer code review, tips & advice, and pair programming to help transitioning military, veterans and their families get coding. @operation_code
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13. Nell Shamrell- Harrington & Jason Dinsmore, volunteer software mentors in our #ruby Slack channel.
14. WE ARE CODERS FIRST. ◦ Mentorship from tech industry professionals ◦ Wide range of skillsets ▫ Android ▫ C# ▫ Go ▫ HTML/CSS ▫ iOS ▫ Java ▫ JavaScript ▫ PHP ▫ Python ▫ Ruby on Rails, etc. @operation_code
15. MENTORING IS EASY. Receive invite to Slack and introduce yourself! Invite to #mentors channel Email us your interest: contact@operationcode.org @operation_code
16. SCHOLARSHIPS Currently, raising $7.5 million to provide scholarship support to our nation’s finest to pay for tuition, room and board. @operation_code
17. Randy Leighton US Navy. Graduate of Epicodus. Currently, software developer at G-5. @operation_code
18. Nick Rose (US Army) Mike Thorne (US Navy) Josh Carter (US Navy) David Molina (US Army) at Twilio HQ during SignalConf 2015. @operation_code
19. EMPLOYER SERVICES Our employer services places veterans for a short-term duration at software companies. Additionally, we provide resume review, job interview preparation and share jobs in our #jobs Slack channel. @operation_code
20. DEPLOY, WEB APPRENTICESHIP We employ military veterans to work on real-world web applications while providing veteran entrepreneurs and small business owners a presence online with modern web technologies. - Krystyna Ewing, Deploy developer - John Hampton, Deploy developer - Ming Zhang, Deploy developer @operation_code
21. ADVOCACY Our advocacy team is two-part: support to code schools to gain state and VA federal certification to accept New GI Bill, and support legislation that favors a streamlined approach for re-training America’s veterans to become software developers. @operation_code
22. HOW YOU CAN HELP. - Join us a software mentor - Spread the word to more military veterans - Help us find scholarship sponsors - Volunteer to help teach beginners - Contribute on GitHub: - github.com/OperationCode @operation_code
23. THANK YOU! #codeconf @davidcmolina https://operationcode.org