A brief, 30 minute presentation for Tucson City High's Career Day...

1. Software Surrounds You
Andrew Lenards
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2. Software Surrounds You
Andrew Lenards
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3. Hi, I’m Andrew
• 13 years
• 5 years teaching
• 10 year (professional) programming
• 2 startups, 2 academic projects
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4. Learning about
software is worthwhile
(my thesis)
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5. Software:
“it’s not what you might think...”
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6. (hand raising)
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7. Programmer
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8. Software Developer
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9. Software Engineer
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10. Coder
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18. Software is important
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19. Software controls
overcomes
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20. Software ...
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21. Why
• Fun/Engaging
• Challenging
• Rewarding
• Merit-based
• Can be done from any where w/ Wi-Fi
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22. Understanding how
software works is
empowering...
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25. “As popular understandings of technologies
have always been one step behind the
technologies themselves, we have become
complacent users rather than agents of our
own computing activities.”
-- From “A Study Guide To Program or Be Programmed...”
(Jennifer Hansen, Will Luers, Setareh Alizadeh, Dr. Dene Gridgar)
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26. Every career benefits
• biologists
• pharmacists
• medical
• business
• economists
• informatics
• ...
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27. “If you love biology or even want to become a
doctor, the first thing you should do is get into
a Computer Science 101 class.”
-- Gill Bejerano, Stanford assistant professor
http://on.recode.net/1e86dgE
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28. Bejerano continues...
“And if you get into 202 and 303, you’d probably be
better off for that.You’ll become dangerous with the
computer – and I really think the future is there.
There is no institutional way of pushing you toward
those intersections (in academia today), or at least
fewer than there will be in five or 10 years. There
aren’t big hurdles, but there’s no illuminated path.You
have to jump yourself.”
source: http://on.recode.net/1e86dgE
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30. the best code is poetry
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32. Solving problems to
help people...
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33. math, statistics, data...
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34. stories
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35. storytelling
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36. A great way to learn is
to build something...
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37. ...it’s easier than EVAR
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MOOCs
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Khan Academy
Movements
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Coursera
Code Year
Hour of Code
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New Opportunity
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open source
Kickstarter
RocketHub

38. http://bit.ly/1e88yIk
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39. art + code
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43. Creative Coding
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45. ST E M
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46. ST E a M
science, technology, engineering, art, math
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47. SISTA
Schools of Information, Sciences, Technology, & Arts
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48. Thank you
(Questions?)
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49. Images
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Douglas Rushkoff http://betterlisten.typepad.com/.a/
6a00d83451f2ae69e2014e8c507cf6970d-pi
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Book cover http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/dtc375-scodi/files/
2013/08/IMG_40671.jpg
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Satya Nadella
www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/
index.html
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkmousie/
2652404430/sizes/l/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/freya_gefn/
2777209147/
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Teamwork pictures used by permission
from Elisabeth Hendrickson: http://
www.flickr.com/photos/30523532@N06/
sets/72157624225385290/
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NY Times - America Goes Dark:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/
open/2010/todata/todata-twitter-visualkrugman.png
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