Guest Speaker Sara Trice

How do I learn technology?

• • • be curious, ask questions

    • if there’s something that you use every day and don’t understand how it works, ask questions. Look it up. If the first person you ask doesn’t know, ask someone else. Ask them who to ask.

    • Google is your friend. Ask Google.

    • If Google doesn’t know, there are lots of web forums that do. Stack Overflow is a great one for technology.

    • High school and college

      • computer engineering

        • Computers and architecture

        • Integrated circuits and logic design

        • Embedded computer systems

        • Computational intelligence

        • Networking and software engineering

        • Security and reliability

      • computer science

        • higher level languages (ruby, python)

        • software architecture

Resources

Pragmatic Bookshelf - good peer-reviewed books

• • Programming Ruby

  • The Rspec Book

Websites to learn code

• • code.org

  • Scratch (scratch.mit.edu)

  • codecademy.com

  • Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com)

  • codeschool.com

  • Code Avengers (codeavengers.com)

  • udacity.com (college courses)

  • Google University (developers.google.com/university)

Where to ask questions

• • Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)

  • Reddit (reddit.com) - subpages for every programming language

    • http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/   

Local resources

• • Girl Develop It

  • RailsBridge

• Meetup.com (lots of local programming/technology groups)