Apple_Lessons_of_a_young_developer.pdf

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1. Lessons of a
   Young Developer
   Gabrielle Ong
   Student & Teaching Assistant,
   General Assembly
   Software Engineer TradeGecko
   

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5. Our roadmap:
   1. Why Code?
   2. Challenges
   3. Practical Tips
   

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6. Why Code?
   

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7. 01
   Why Code?
   To solve problems
   ‣ Why I started: Hospital software
   

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9. 01
   Why Code?
   To solve problems
   ‣ Why I started: Hospital software
   ‣ Big or small, solve problems
   ‣ It’s ok if you don’t know what you
   want to solve
   ‣ Explore, learn, build necessary
   skills
   

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10. To learn and think
    ‣ Learning to write/maths 

    doesn’t mean you have to
    become a writer/mathematician
    ‣ A way to communicate
    ‣ Apply to other skills
    02
    Why Code?
    

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11. Challenges
    

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12. 01
    Challenges
    No answers
    ‣ Syntax changes
    ‣ ‘How’ is more impt than the
    Answer
    ‣ Embrace the struggle
    ‣ You will fail then succeed
    

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13. 02
    Challenges
    Doubters
    ‣ People diss your ideas, design
    ‣ You miss the shots you don’t take
    ‣ Focus on improving your craft
    ‣ Criticism…
    

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15. 02
    Challenges
    Doubters
    ‣ People diss your ideas, design
    ‣ Miss all the shots you don’t take
    ‣ Focus on improving your craft
    ‣ Criticism is a great thing if used to
    make informed decisions
    

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16. 03
    Challenges
    The biggest doubter:
    Ourselves
    ‣ Beginners will look like beginners
    

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17. When you’re a beginner,
    everything will look
    like you’re a beginner
    

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18. 03
    Challenges
    The biggest doubter:
    Ourselves
    ‣ Beginners will look like beginners
    ‣ So much that I don’t know
    

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20. 03
    Challenges
    The biggest doubter:
    Ourselves
    ‣ Beginners will look like beginners
    ‣ So much that I don’t know
    ‣ Feeling dumb is the best feeling in
    the world
    ‣ Capture your ‘Aha!’ moments
    

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21. Tips!
    

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22. 01
    Tips!
    How to learn
    ‣ Taking notes: memorising vs
    understanding
    ‣ 15 min rule - asking for help
    ‣ Build build build
    ‣ Info overload - know what you
    don’t know
    

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23. 02
    Tips!
    Your Tribe
    ‣ Your greatest resource!
    

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25. 02
    Tips!
    Your Tribe
    ‣ Your greatest resource
    ‣ Share your learnings, struggles &
    joys
    

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26. 03
    Tips!
    The community
    ‣ Helping not competing
    ‣ Learn and achieve great things,
    while teaching and helping others
    

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29. The higher I climb,

    the more I realise

    how vast the forest is

    and how much

    I don’t know
    

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30. Gabrielle Ong
    @hellogabbo
    gabrielleonghuimin@gmail.com
    

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