The document outlines tips for becoming a software developer, including learning clean code practices like naming conventions, modularity, and error handling. It recommends practicing code daily, using version control to track changes, solving real world problems, learning from failures, and unit testing code. Additional tips include utilizing open source tools, participating in user groups and conferences, identifying a favorite programming language, being curious about how technologies work, and considering social impact projects. The overall goal is providing guidance for graduates to transition into software development careers.

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Find the techie within you!

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! From grad to software techie
! Exposure
! Best practices
! Techniques & Tools
! Extreme Programming
! Q & A
What are we going to learn about

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The art of crafting Clean Code
Naming conventions
Readable
Modular
DRY YAGNI
Single Responsibility Error handling

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Code, code and only code
! Learn by practice
! Do it everyday
! See the evolution
! Different approaches for same problem
! Hands-on

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Version Control
! Code Repository
! Track changes
! Revert/Refer previous history

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Version Control – Social Element

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Solve real world problem
! Relate your academic learning
! Even if its already solved

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Fail fast
! Its ok to make mistakes
! But take care not to fail on the same mistake
again
! Learn from your failure

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Seat belt for your code
! Unit test your code
! Automate user interaction
! Quick feedback
! Practice continuous integration

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Open Source
! Utilize open source tools/libraries
! Read open source code, learn from it
! Open source your code
! Contribute!
! Get recognized

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Community
! Meetups and Hackathons
! Share your learnings
! Online
! Hackerne.ws
! Stackoverflow
! Follow local user groups
! S/W conferences

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Passion

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Passion
! Identify your fav. programming
language
! Solve problems
! Learn frameworks
! Put it to use

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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

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Social Impact

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Questions?