How to be a great developer

I wanted to give a talk to some new developers covering the things I've learned over the last 10 years of working in this industry. This is a short presentation with two key points: Be a sponge, and Be a Teacher

Transcript

1. Developing is a lot like cooking
2. SPONGE BE A
3. TEACHER BE A
4. SPONGE BE A
5. Follow great developers
6. uptodate.frontendrescue.org
7. uptodate.frontendrescue.org
8. uptodate.frontendrescue.org
9. uptodate.frontendrescue.org
10. PAY ATTENTION
11. Before I was a developer I was A…
12. Designer
13. At night I was reading about code
14. embrace change
15. embrace change (and failure)
16. embrace change (sooooooo much failure)
17. storytime
18. Happiness Time
19. Happiness Time This is you
20. Happiness Time
21. You in 6 - 12 months Happiness Time
22. Happiness Time
23. you will also go through this curve
24. But you’ll survive
25. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr
26. TEACHER BE A
27. Write a blog
28. Publish 10 posts
29. Share on reddit
30. Share on reddit (there will be trolls)
31. Give a Talk
32. no. 1 Fear: Public speaking Source: America’s top fears: Public speaking, heights and bugs
35. Give a talk to your team
36. Try a meet up
37. Then go for a conference
38. zachholman.com/talk/the-talk-on-talks
40. Share some Code
41. Create something entirely new
42. Contribute to an existing project
43. “This is what often holds me back from publishing a project or code: to be judged by other devs how I've written my code/project.”
44. “If they hate then let ‘em hate and watch the money pile up.” - Niels Bohr
45. “If they hate then let ‘em hate and watch the money pile up.” - Niels Bohr - Kanye West
46. SPONGE BE A
47. TEACHER BE A
48. THANKS! @rob_dodson +RobDodson