CODE IS COOL

ME.

EDUCATION

• 70s: Liberal arts / philosophy degree
• Summer internships
• Self-taught + foundation courses
• Career learning
• 1994: start over with dawn of web

GOOD CAREERS CHANGE WITH YOU

• Flight simulation for Navy
• Architecture student
• Energy in buildings analyst
• DB Visualization engineer
• Web programmer / webmaster

WHY?

What makes a GREAT career?

• Interesting / creative work
• Flexibility of work
• Versatility of career
• Enough jobs
• Good pay

CREATIVITY

• Make something that WORKS
• Solve problems every day
• Be a creator not a cog
• Implement, elucidate, educate
• Get creative autonomy younger

FLEXIBILITY

• Worldwide work
• Full time, part time, contract
• Telecommuting

VERSATILITY

• Combine with any field
• Frontend (design)
• Backend (data)
• Middleware (business)
• Infrastucture specialist

JOBS IN SW

• 1M more jobs than students
• Programming growing 2x nat'l avg
• Every field has programmers
• Only 5% of US learn to code

PAY

• Generally excellent starting salaries
• Good benefits and vacation
• Forward looking companies
• Working environments humane or better

YOU.

WHO YOU ARE.

• Can learn on your own
• Have an inquiring mind
• Can handle details
• Excited when things work

START LEARNING NOW

• Consider web sw to start
• Online learning
• College degree
• Add a minor?
• Choose your first job

STARTING LANGUAGES

• For web: html, CSS
• Javascript
• PHP
• Move onto Rails or Python
• C# and Java in college

RESOURCES

• CodeAcademy.com
• Learnable.com
• Codeschool.com
• GirlsWhoCode.com
• YouTube

CONTACT ME:

• slideshare.net/MarieTolerRaney
• Marie.Raney@wwu.edu
• Linkedin.com/in/marietolerraney
• Twitter.com/rieraney