These are the slides from my short talk at the May 2014 EMC users' group meeting in Seattle. It's a personal story about what is possible in terms of learning to write code and to serve as encouragement for [infrastructure] engineers to develop themselves, their careers, and empathy for others in their organizations.

1. Why engineers
*should*
code()

2. fun
https://twitter.com/yodascatfacts

3. learn
https://learn.adafruit.com/photocells

4. meet
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22898894/simple-flow-control-in-nodejs

5. share
https://github.com/briantwalter

6. Get github
Start off right with
version control
Use portable, cross-platform
interpreted languages
Add a run timePick an editor
Keep it simple and skip
Eclipse and Visual Studio
Textmate
Vim or nano
Notepad++
start

7. take a book

8. thanks
@briantwalter
fun. learn. meet. share.