Creating yourself as a Software Engineer

Slide deck I used for a guest talk at the UCI's (University of California @ Irvine) Requirements and Software Engineering class by Dr. Navarro.

Transcript

1. C R E AT I N G Y O U R S E L F A S A S O F T WA R E E N G I N E E R
2. – M O R P H E U S , T H E M AT R I X “There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
3. C U R I O S I T Y
4. T O P I C E X P L O R E D I S C U S S F U N
5. P E R S O N A L P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T
6. F I N D Y O U R PA S S I O N C H A L L E N G E Y O U R S E L F P O RT F O L I O & R E S U M E
7. WA L K T H E PAT H , T H AT I S E X A C T LY W H AT W E L O O K F O R I N C A N D I D AT E S I N C O N C L U S I O N
8. R E S O U R C E S ( 2 0 1 6 E D I T I O N ) • Margaret Hamilton - Her code got humans on the moon - and invented software itself (WIRED magazine) • Anything by Jeff Dean • Simplicity is Complicated by Rob Pike