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

6. Why Code?

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

10. To learn and think ‣ Learning to write/maths 
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    mean you have to become a writer/mathematician ‣ A way to communicate ‣ Apply to other skills 02 Why Code?

11. Challenges

12. 01 Challenges No answers ‣ Syntax changes ‣ ‘How’ is

    more impt than the Answer ‣ Embrace the struggle ‣ You will fail then succeed

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

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

    like beginners

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

    beginner

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

21. Tips!

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

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

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

30. Gabrielle Ong @hellogabbo gabrielleonghuimin@gmail.com