Intro to the Tech World

Given November 19, 2014 at @bitmakerlabs. A quick primer on the tech industry to beginner developers.

Transcript

1. Intro to the Tech World
2. @psobot
3. @psobot
4. Software Engineering 2014
9. _____ Just a few of our clients:
10. Welcome to the “Tech World”
11. this talk is meant to burst your bubble
13. Three points:
14. Three points: • Software is really big.
15. Three points: • Software is really big. • Computers suck.
16. Three points: • Software is really big. • Computers suck. • The tech industry is great.
17. Software is really big.
18. Where did you start in software?
21. HTML I started with
23. HTML
24. HTML JAVASCRIPT
25. HTML JAVASCRIPT PHP
26. HTML JAVASCRIPT PHP “that’s everything there is to know in web development”
27. HTML JAVASCRIPT PHP
28. HTML JAVASCRIPT APPLICATION WEB SERVER OPERATING SYSTEM VIRTUAL MACHINE CPU HARDWARE NETWORKING BROWSER DATABASE
29. HTML JAVASCRIPT APPLICATION WEB SERVER OPERATING SYSTEM VIRTUAL MACHINE CPU HARDWARE NETWORKING BROWSER DATABASE “that’s everything there is to know in web development”
30. WEB DEV COMPUTING
31. ` SOFTWARE
32. SOFTWARE
33. SOFTWARE Embedded Games Mobile Native Research Web
34. SOFTWARE HARDWARE DESIGN COMPUTING
35. COMPUTER VISION
36. COMPUTER VISION
37. NEURAL NETWORKS
39. this was handwritten by a computer
40. There is so much going on in the world of computing.
41. You don’t need to know everything.
42. You should know how much is out there.
43. Read blog posts.
44. Read Hacker News.
45. Watch talks.
46. Watch Zach Holman.
47. Watch Kelsey Gilmore-Innis.
48. Watch Gary Bernhardt.
49. Computers suck.
52. All software has bugs.
54. It’s incredibly hard to design software that doesn’t suck.
55. THIS IS exciting
56. We have the chance to BUILD BETTER SOFTWARE
57. If you use software, you have taste in software.
58. Don’t build software that sucks.
59. The tech industry is great.
62. Chat is everything
68. GitHub is everything else
73. Project management is key
75. Perks & Salary
79. (if you’re very, very good at what you do)
80. • Software is really big. • Computers suck. • The tech industry is great. Questions? @psobot