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Find the techie within you!


!   From grad to software techie!   Exposure !   Best practices!   Techniques & Tools!   Extreme Programming

!   Q & A

What are we going to learn about


The art of crafting Clean Code

Naming conventions

Readable

Modular

DRY YAGNI

Single Responsibility Error handling


Code, code and only code

!   Learn by practice!   Do it everyday!   See the evolution!   Different approaches for same problem!   Hands-on


Version Control

!   Code Repository!   Track changes!   Revert/Refer previous history


Version Control – Social Element


Solve real world problem

!   Relate your academic learning

!   Even if its already solved


Fail fast

!   Its ok to make mistakes

!   But take care not to fail on the same mistake again

!   Learn from your failure


Seat belt for your code

!   Unit test your code

!   Automate user interaction

!   Quick feedback

!   Practice continuous integration


Open Source

!   Utilize open source tools/libraries

!   Read open source code, learn from it

!   Open source your code

!   Contribute!

!   Get recognized


Community

! Meetups and Hackathons

!   Share your learnings

!   Online! Hackerne.ws! Stackoverflow

!   Follow local user groups

!   S/W conferences


Passion


Passion

!   Identify your fav. programming language

!   Solve problems

!   Learn frameworks

!   Put it to use


Be curious

!   Ask what, why and how things work!   Ex: http, email, microcontroller in your car

!   Host your own website

!   Use amazon ec2 / heroku /azure cloud

!   Blog your learning

!   Build a mobile app


Social Impact


Questions?

find the techie within you

Technology

open source code

code repository

open source toolslibraries

version control social

social impact

user interaction

software techie

extreme programming