Find the techie in you

Bit of gyan to all software eng. students to get them ready to enter the IT corporate world

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1. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Find the techie within you!
2. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. !   From grad to software techie !   Exposure !   Best practices !   Techniques & Tools !   Extreme Programming !   Q & A What are we going to learn about
3. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. The art of crafting Clean Code Naming conventions Readable Modular DRY YAGNI Single Responsibility Error handling
4. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Code, code and only code !   Learn by practice !   Do it everyday !   See the evolution !   Different approaches for same problem !   Hands-on
5. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Version Control !   Code Repository !   Track changes !   Revert/Refer previous history
6. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Version Control – Social Element
7. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Solve real world problem !   Relate your academic learning !   Even if its already solved
8. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Fail fast !   Its ok to make mistakes !   But take care not to fail on the same mistake again !   Learn from your failure
9. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Seat belt for your code !   Unit test your code !   Automate user interaction !   Quick feedback !   Practice continuous integration
10. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Open Source !   Utilize open source tools/libraries !   Read open source code, learn from it !   Open source your code !   Contribute! !   Get recognized
11. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Community ! Meetups and Hackathons !   Share your learnings !   Online ! Hackerne.ws ! Stackoverflow !   Follow local user groups !   S/W conferences
12. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Passion
13. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Passion !   Identify your fav. programming language !   Solve problems !   Learn frameworks !   Put it to use
14. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Be curious !   Ask what, why and how things work !   Ex: http, email, microcontroller in your car !   Host your own website !   Use amazon ec2 / heroku /azure cloud !   Blog your learning !   Build a mobile app
15. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Social Impact
16. Private and Confidential. © 2013 ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. Questions?