Programming is Awesome

A talk presented at the TEALS CS Opportunity Fair to 400 high school students.

Transcript

1. PROGRAMMING
   IS AWESOME
   !
   !
   by pamela fox
   [“hip”, “hip”]
   

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2. HOW’D I GET INTO IT?
   

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3. WE WERE SURROUNDED.
   

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4. WINDOWS DOS, FTW
   

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5. AND THUS IT BEGINS...
   

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6. HOW I SPENT MY NEW YEARS VACATION
   

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7. THE POWER OF THE WEB
   

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8. DIGITIZE ALL THE THINGS!
   

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9. SCHOOL PROJECTS
   

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10. CYBERCLUB
    

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11. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING
    #1 It’s creative
    

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12. COLLEGE PICKING TIME!
    11TH GRADE.
    

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13. A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS...
    - Event Planning (+ Computers)
    
    - Graphic Design (+ Computers)
    
    - Language learning (+ Computers)
    
    - Newspaper layout (+ Computers)
    
    - Computer Programming
    
    - Website Development
    
    !
    COMPUTERS,
    COMPUTERS,
    COMPUTERS.
    

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14. WHERE?
    3D Animation
    Linguistics
    Computer Science
    

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15. COMPUTER SCIENCE + LINGUISTICS
    

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16. COMPUTER SCIENCE + ANIMATION
    

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17. COMPUTER SCIENCE + GAMES
    

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18. SIDE PROJECTS!
    

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19. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING
    #2 It’s interdisciplinary
    

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20. IT’S JOB FINDING TIME!
    SUMMER AFTER
    
    SENIOR YEAR.
    

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21. “DEVELOPER ADVOCATE”
    
    THE YEARS
    
    

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22. THE YEARS
    
    

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23. 20% TIME
    
    THE YEARS
    
    

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24. THE YEARS
    
    Japan
    Australia
    Singapore
    France
    Brazil Philippines
    

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25. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING
    #3 It’s fun to teach
    

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26. THE HACKING YEAR
    
    

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27. THE YEAR
    
    

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28. THE YEARS
    
    

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29. OUR TEAM
    

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30. http://life.khanacademy.org/
    WE EAT…
    

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31. WE BOND…
    http://life.khanacademy.org/
    

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32. WE CELEBRATE!
    http://life.khanacademy.org/
    

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33. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING
    #4 It’s collaborative
    

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34. WHY PROGRAMMING IS AWESOME
    Collaborative
    Creative
    Fun to teach
    Interdisciplinary
    …for me
    

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35. WHY PROGRAMMING IS AWESOME
    …for other people
    Sarah Northway: Creates games
    Bill Mills: Visualizes physics
    Tom Heinan: Makes medical apps Carrie Cai: Researches learning
    

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36. WHAT WILL MAKE
    PROGRAMMING AWESOME
    FOR *YOU*?
    @pamelafox
    

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