How Coding Can Make Your Life Better
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This document discusses how coding can improve one's life and provides tips for learning to code. It begins by defining what code is and explaining why coding is useful for creativity, automation, problem-solving skills, and confidence. It then discusses different roles in coding like coders, hackers, programmers and engineers. The document provides examples of success stories of people who learned to code and went on to create successful apps or businesses. Finally, it lists some approaches and resources for learning how to code, such as Codecademy, Khan Academy, Code.org and coding meetups.
How Coding Can Make Your Life Better
- 1. How Coding Can Make Your Life Better Jamshid Hashimi @jamshidhashimi @CodeWeekend
- 2. Agenda • Code? What is that? • Why Coding? • Coder, Hacker, Programmer, Engineer? • How to Learn Coding? • Success Stories • Inspirations
- 4. Code? What is that? • Code is a set of instructions that directs a computer (desktop, smartphone, tablet, etc.) to perform specific operations. • The complete set of code instructions is called software. – Word on your desktop, Angry Birds on your phone, and Gmail in your browser.
- 5. Why Coding? • Creativity (Experiment, Whole Brain Thinking, Creator) • It helps us automate tasks and make them faster • Breaking down problems become a habit • It teaches that you get out of life in proportion to what you put in. • Confidence • Dedication • Patience • Knowledge • Research • “If computers are at all a part of your life, then learning to program is going to improve your life.”
- 6. Who Are You? • Coder? • Hacker? • Programmer? • Engineer?
- 7. Who Are You? • Coder? You're a shut-in who spends most of his (yes, statistically, you're probably a dude) hunched over a laptop and rarely see the light of day. • Hacker? You're a bit dangerous (or at least you imagine you are). • Programmer? You're proud to be a nerd. • Engineer? You're filling in your Match.com profile.
- 8. How to Learn Coding? • Start Small • Try Different Approaches • Find a community to support you • Side Effects: You'll hit walls sometimes! • Inspiration: but don’t give up! Take a break, eat, sleep, try again tomorrow.
- 9. Success Stories This 12-year-old kid learned to code on Codecademy, built 5 apps, and is speaking at SXSW
- 10. Success Stories • Name: Ethan Duggan • Age: 11 • Live in: Las Vegas • Apps: Lazy Husband, Lazy Kid • Frameworks using: Phonegap, AppGyver • Learn coding from: Codecademy
- 11. Success Stories
- 12. Success Stories • Henry D’Andrea – Secret Menu for Starbucks • How: AppCoda (Learn iOS Programming from Scratch) • Advice: Never. Ever. Ever. Give Up.
- 14. Success Stories • Instagram’s founder had no programming training. • He was a marketer who learned to code by night • Sold Instagram to Facebook $1 billion. • His first idea: Connecting Foursquare with Mafia Wars. Raised $500K.
- 15. Success Stories
- 16. Success Stories • Nathan: Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning To Code • OneVoice: Gives voice for those who cannot speak.
- 17. Success Stories
- 18. Success Stories • App Name: Ishoot ($1.99) • Ethan Nicholas • Age: 31 • Country: US • $1 Million in less than 7 months • He had difficulty to pay his medical bills and need to earn more money. Start learning Objective-C and how to develop iPhone Apps.
- 19. Success Stories
- 20. Success Stories • App Name: Rolly Candy • Developer: Baptiste Greve • Budget: $20 • 500 downloads in first two weeks. Played in 37 different countries by 6,800 people
- 21. Success Stories
- 22. Success Stories • 17-year-old British high schooler Nick D'Aloisio • The Justin Bieber of iPhone app development. • He sold his iPhone app Summly, which he started when he was 15, to Yahoo for $30 million • How it works: The app uses an algorithm to automatically create 400-character summaries of news articles and deliver them to your phone.
- 23. Success Stories • Jamie Zawinski was one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org, was the primary developer of Lucid Emacs, and wrote most of your screen savers. • Has only a high school degree!
- 24. Success Stories: Do We Have?
- 25. How to Learn Coding? • Codecademy.com • KhanAcademy.org/cs • Code.org • learncodethehardway.org • TreeHouse • Udacity • CodeSchool • Harvard's CS50x at edX • CoderByte • CodeWeekend! (Seriously)
- 27. Questions?
- 28. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
- #5: Coding is what makes it possible for us to create computer software, apps and websites. Your browser, your OS, the apps on your phone, Facebook, and this website – they’re all made with code. Resource: http://www.brevedy.com/2014/03/19/coding-and-creating-software-for-non-coders/
- #8: Resource: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/difference-between-coders-programmers-and-engineers
- #12: TeamTreeHouse
- #15: http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-formal-programming-training-hes-a-marketer-who-learned-to-code-by-night/