Beyond Hogwarts

Beyond Hogwarts - A Half-Blood's Perspective on Inclusive Magical (Programming) Education is my talk from RailsConf 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Transcript

1. Beyond Hogwarts A Half-Blood’s Perspective on Inclusive Magical Education @edupunkn00b T ext at https://github.com/JaimeLynSchatz/BeyondHogwarts
2. Lovelyn T reasurebox T ext at https://github.com/JaimeLynSchatz/BeyondHogwarts
3. Lovelyn T reasurebox (Jaime Lyn Schatz) Je te vois, Francophiles! Sprechen sie Deutsch? T ext at https://github.com/JaimeLynSchatz/BeyondHogwarts
4. Beyond Hogwarts A Half-Blood’s Perspective on Inclusive Magical Education @edupunkn00b T ext at https://github.com/JaimeLynSchatz/BeyondHogwarts
5. Magic == Code
6. Hogwarts == CS Degree Magic == Code
7. Squibs == Math/T echnophobes Magic == Code Hogwarts == CS Degree
8. Cute metaphor, huh?
9. Stay with me … Let’s see where that takes us
10. Harry, Hermione and Ron fighting evil.
11. Tiny print, but that’s my dad.
13. One does not simply ignore an owl from Headmaster Dumbledore
14. I passed up the chance to go to here (Hogwarts Stuyvesant High School in NYC)
15. T o attend the Fame School And yes, we paid in sweat!
16. Podcasts and library books - what more could you want out of life?
18. GitHub’s even better than Diagon Alley
19. Thanks again, Cheri! I wouldn’t be here without you!
20. Severus Snape T ed Neward
21. Lily Evans says you’re welcome for the Boy Who Lived Hedy Lamar says you’re welcome for WI-FI, Bluetooth, Cell Phones …
22. Lily Potter says you’re welcome for the Boy Who Lived Hedy Lamar also invented the frequency switching that helped us win WWII
23. The Weasley T wins Mark Zuckerberg Bill Gates
25. Ollivander, Wandmaker DHH, Railsmaker
26. Rebecca Garcia @geekgirlweb Co-Founder CoderDojo NYC, Dev Evangelist Speaker and Mentor
27. Jen Meyers @antiheroine Director of Open Source Curriculum at @pluralsight. Founder of @codecupcakeschi.
28. Satya Nadella == Rufus Scrimgeour? Certainly puts a new spin on Karmagate.
29. Merge conflict, that is.
30. Power Privacy Security The Threats Voldemort
33. For their most recent cohort, Ada Developers Academy (Seattle, WA) had only an 8% acceptance rate. They were forced to turn away 243 bright and motivated prospective developers. 243 24
34. https://twitter.com/lizuselton/status/485253770796748800
35. We’re only allowed this little hint of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Someday my prince will come and dear old Mickey will be part of the public domain. But that’s another talk.
37. Any CodeNewbies in the house?
38. Power Privacy Security The Threats Voldemort
39. The Threats Power • Battery Life • Energy
40. The Threats Power • Battery Life • Energy
41. The Threats Privacy • The Nosy Neighbor • NSA • Google, FB, T witter and Friends
42. The Threats Privacy • The Nosy Neighbor • NSA • Google, FB, T witter and Friends
43. The Threats Privacy • The Nosy Neighbor • NSA • Google, FB, T witter and Friends
45. The Threats Security • Hackers and Thieves
46. The Threats Security • Hackers and Thieves • Down with passwords!
47. 1 2 3 4 5 ?
48. The Threats Power Privacy Security
49. The Threats Power Privacy Security
50. The Threats Power Privacy Security
51. We’ve got you.
62. Beyond Hogwarts A Half-Blood’s Perspective on Inclusive Magical Education @edupunkn00b T ext at https://github.com/JaimeLynSchatz/BeyondHogwarts