So You Want To Be A Wizard | NOVA Hackathon

Innovation Hackathon
Woodbridge, VA
April 8th-10th, 2016

Transcript

1. S O Y O U W A N T T O B E A W I Z A R D F V C p r o d u c t i o n s I N N O V A T I O N H A C K A T H O N A P R I L 2 0 1 6
2. A WORD WHICH HERE MEANS If you press the keys in the right order, you can do anything! WIZARD
3. HORIZONTAL PICTURE PROGRAMMING IS BASICALLY MAGIC.
4. MUGGLES HOUSES POTIONS DARK ARTS FLYING CONCLUSION
5. MUGGLES
9. Creator. not A consumer.
10. What sort of things do you want to create? CONTEMPLATION
11. HOUSES
12. Software Engineer Web Developer User Interface Developer
13. “I am looking for a developer.”
14. The Internship - 2013
16. Silicon Valley - since 2014
18. The Internship - 2013
20. Silicon Valley - since 2014
21. sold to Facebook for $19 billion 55 employees one person = $345 million sold to Facebook for $1 billion 13 employees one person = $77 million
22. The Internship - 2013
24. AEROSPACE BIOTECH ENERGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NANOTECH CYBERSECURITY
25. We wanted flying cars — instead we got 140 characters.
26. largest social network in the world
27. enable a self sustaining human civilization on Mars
28. This is what most people think of when they hear “programmer”. :-(
29. Gender Distribution @ Top Tech Companies
30. Racial Distribution @ Top Tech Companies
33. 50+ LGBT No Degree Parent Women POC Self-Taught Disability First Gen. Immigrant Gaming Poverty
37. What kind of developer do you want to be? CONTEMPLATION
38. FLYING
46. What do you do outside of school to better yourself as a developer? CONTEMPLATION
48. POTIONS
50. HTML STRUCTURE
51. CSS STYLE
52. Layers of Web Design JS BEHAVIOR
59. VERSION CONTROL
61. CODING BOOTCAMPS
63. SEPT 2015
64. Resources for Resources medium.com speakerdeck.com producthunt.com github.com
65. Do you think you’re in touch with modern technologies? Why or why not? CONTEMPLATION
67. DARK ARTS
69. R I
70. $ 94K per year $ 110K per year $ 98K per year AVERAGE SALARY G L A S S D O O R 2 0 1 6 software engineer software engineer intern senior software engineer
75. Why do YOU want to become a wizard? Be honest with yourself. CONTEMPLATION
76. CONCLUSION
77. FORGE YOUR OWN PATH
79. 67% of “software” jobs are outside the tech industry in banking, retail, government, entertainment, etc.
81. W8!!! 1 3 2
82. meetup.com 1 Attend a local tech Meetup.
83. CODE COMBAT codecombat.com 2
84. small projects nice mentor learning fund 3
85. Btw, I’m Frances. • CS major • fullstacker • dog lover
86. Questions, comments, or concerns? fvcproductions.com THA NK YOU
87. KEEP IN TOUCH @fvcproductions