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”]
2. HOW’D I GET INTO IT?
3. WE WERE SURROUNDED.
4. WINDOWS DOS, FTW
5. AND THUS IT BEGINS...
6. HOW I SPENT MY NEW YEARS VACATION
7. THE POWER OF THE WEB
8. DIGITIZE ALL THE THINGS!
9. SCHOOL PROJECTS
10. CYBERCLUB
11. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #1 It’s creative
12. COLLEGE PICKING TIME! 11TH GRADE.
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.
    
14. WHERE? 3D Animation Linguistics Computer Science
15. COMPUTER SCIENCE + LINGUISTICS
16. COMPUTER SCIENCE + ANIMATION
17. COMPUTER SCIENCE + GAMES
18. SIDE PROJECTS!
19. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #2 It’s interdisciplinary
20. IT’S JOB FINDING TIME!
    SUMMER AFTER SENIOR YEAR.
21. “DEVELOPER ADVOCATE” THE YEARS
22. THE YEARS
23. 20% TIME THE YEARS
24. THE YEARS Japan Australia Singapore France Brazil Philippines
25. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #3 It’s fun to teach
26. THE HACKING YEAR
27. THE YEAR
28. THE YEARS
29. OUR TEAM
30. http://life.khanacademy.org/ WE EAT…
31. WE BOND… http://life.khanacademy.org/
32. WE CELEBRATE! http://life.khanacademy.org/
33. WHY I LOVE PROGRAMMING #4 It’s collaborative
34. WHY PROGRAMMING IS AWESOME Collaborative Creative Fun to teach Interdisciplinary …for me
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
36. WHAT WILL MAKE PROGRAMMING AWESOME FOR *YOU*? @pamelafox