Don't Panic

Given at UPD DCS' Tackle 2016.

Transcript

1. The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -George Jessel
2. Don’t Panic
3. Chad n. chocolate-consuming, code-churning, curious creature currently Interpreter of Ambiguous Specs and Business Rules™ at Kalibrr
4. Learn to learn
5. 4 years roughly the lifespan of “hot” technologies
6. 2008: PHP (thanks, Facebook!)
7. 2008: PHP (thanks, Facebook!) 2012: Python (thanks, Django and also PHP bashers)
8. 2008: PHP (thanks, Facebook!) 2012: Python (thanks, Django and also PHP bashers) 2016 today: JS Frameworks
9. The first 20 hours Josh Kaufman at TEDxCSU https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY
10. engineering product vs software
11. software engineering
12. software engineering design/ architecture
13. software engineering design/ architecture processes
14. software engineering design/ architecture user requirements processes
15. software engineering design/ architecture user requirements processes well-defined scope, set in stone
16. product engineering
17. product engineering problems that need solutions
18. product engineering problems that need solutions results
19. product engineering problems that need solutions results audience/user research
20. product engineering problems that need solutions solution subject to change results audience/user research
21. Software Engineering is making things properly
22. Product Engineering is making things people need
23. speaking of which, you will also need...
24. “CS 666”: People Skills
25. Empathy
26. Empathy writing documentation
27. Empathy writing documentation designing that next “killer” feature
28. Empathy writing documentation designing that next “killer” feature dealing with bug reports
29. This is Water David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College https://youtu.be/0lu2e-q8ntM
30. and one more thing...
31. Depth-First Search Don’t graduate without at least learning this. By. Heart.
32. wakas.