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Should you learn how to code?
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Elisha Tan
January 28, 2015
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Should you learn how to code?
Slides to the talk I gave at GeekGirl Meetup Launch in Singapore
Elisha Tan
January 28, 2015
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@elishatan Should you code? Elisha Tan Founder, Learnemy
@elishatan Check out my mad tech skills yo
Online marketplace for in-person classes
@elishatan You don’t need to be a programming expert
@elishatan Wix Unbounce SnapPages Strikingly
@elishatan
@elishatan
@elishatan
@elishatan Why should you code? 1. Communicate with offshore team
2. Hiring developers 3. Test ideas quickly 4. Make better business decisions 5. Fix non-tech related codes
@elishatan Programming is easy to pick up, hard to master.
But it’s learnable!
@elishatan rails g scaffold my_note_taking_app title:string content:text materials:string
@elishatan ThoughtWorks 87B Amoy Street #03/04 Singapore 069906 ! http://bit.ly/railsgirlsJAN
@elishatan !
[email protected]
@elishatan !
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