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Software Surrounds YouAndrew Lenards
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Software Surrounds YouAndrew Lenards
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Hi, I’m Andrew
• 13 years
• 5 years teaching
• 10 year (professional) programming
• 2 startups, 2 academic projects
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Learning about software is worthwhile
(my thesis)
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Software:“it’s not what you might think...”
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(hand raising)
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Programmer
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Software Developer
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Software Engineer
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Coder
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Software is important
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Software controls overcomes
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Software ...
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Why
• Fun/Engaging
• Challenging
• Rewarding
• Merit-based
• Can be done from any where w/ Wi-Fi
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Understanding how software works is
empowering...
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“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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Every career benefits• biologists
• pharmacists
• medical
• business
• economists
• informatics
• ...
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“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 professorhttp://on.recode.net/1e86dgE
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“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.”
Bejerano continues...
source: http://on.recode.net/1e86dgE
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the best code is poetry
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Solving problems to help people...
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math, statistics, data...
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stories
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storytelling
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A great way to learn is to build something...
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...it’s easier than EVAR• MOOCs
• Coursera
• Khan Academy
• Movements
• Code Year
• Hour of Code
• New Opportunity
• open source
• Kickstarter
• RocketHub
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http://bit.ly/1e88yIk
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art + code
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Creative Coding
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S T E M
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S T E a Mscience, technology, engineering, art, math
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SISTASchools of Information, Sciences, Technology, & Arts
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Thank you(Questions?)
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Images• Douglas Rushkoff -
http://betterlisten.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451f2ae69e2014e8c507cf6970d-pi
• Book cover - http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/dtc375-scodi/files/2013/08/IMG_40671.jpg
• Satya Nadella www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ceo/index.html
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkmousie/2652404430/sizes/l/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/freya_gefn/2777209147/
• Teamwork pictures used by permission from Elisabeth Hendrickson: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30523532@N06/sets/72157624225385290/
• NY Times - America Goes Dark: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/open/2010/todata/todata-twitter-visual-krugman.png
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