Software Surrounds You

Software Surrounds YouAndrew Lenards

Thursday, February 6, 14

Hi, I’m Andrew

• 13 years

• 5 years teaching

• 10 year (professional) programming

• 2 startups, 2 academic projects


Learning about software is worthwhile

(my thesis)


Software:“it’s not what you might think...”


(hand raising)


Programmer


Software Developer


Software Engineer


Coder


Software is important


Software controls overcomes


Software ...


Why

• Fun/Engaging

• Challenging

• Rewarding

• Merit-based

• Can be done from any where w/ Wi-Fi


Understanding how software works is

empowering...


“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)


Every career benefits• biologists

• pharmacists

• medical

• business

• economists

• informatics

• ...


“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


http://on.recode.net/1e86dgE

http://on.recode.net/1e86dgE

“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


the best code is poetry


Solving problems to help people...


math, statistics, data...


stories


storytelling


A great way to learn is to build something...


...it’s easier than EVAR• MOOCs

• Coursera

• Khan Academy

• Movements

• Code Year

• Hour of Code

• New Opportunity

• open source

• Kickstarter

• RocketHub


http://bit.ly/1e88yIk


http://youtu.be/GHaXN8G10fI?t=28m20s

http://youtu.be/GHaXN8G10fI?t=28m20s

art + code


Creative Coding


S T E M


S T E a Mscience, technology, engineering, art, math


SISTASchools of Information, Sciences, Technology, & Arts


Thank you(Questions?)


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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http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/dtc375-scodi/files/2013/08/IMG_40671.jpg




http://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/




http://www.flickr.com/photos/30523532@N06/sets/72157624225385290/






http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/open/2010/todata/todata-twitter-visual-krugman.png






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