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Gabrielle Ong Hui Min
February 15, 2018
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Transcript
Lessons of a Young Developer Gabrielle Ong Student & Teaching
Assistant, General Assembly Software Engineer TradeGecko
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Our roadmap: 1. Why Code? 2. Challenges 3. Practical Tips
Why Code?
01 Why Code? To solve problems ‣ Why I started:
Hospital software
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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
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?
Challenges
01 Challenges No answers ‣ Syntax changes ‣ ‘How’ is
more impt than the Answer ‣ Embrace the struggle ‣ You will fail then succeed
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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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
03 Challenges The biggest doubter: Ourselves ‣ Beginners will look
like beginners
When you’re a beginner, everything will look like you’re a
beginner
03 Challenges The biggest doubter: Ourselves ‣ Beginners will look
like beginners ‣ So much that I don’t know
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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
Tips!
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
02 Tips! Your Tribe ‣ Your greatest resource!
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02 Tips! Your Tribe ‣ Your greatest resource ‣ Share
your learnings, struggles & joys
03 Tips! The community ‣ Helping not competing ‣ Learn
and achieve great things, while teaching and helping others
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The higher I climb, the more I realise how vast
the forest is and how much I don’t know
Gabrielle Ong @hellogabbo
[email protected]