Slide deck for a presentation I gave to teenagers at the National Student Leadership Conference in Berkley CA, to convince them that software engineering is the awesomest profession there is.

1. “Hello World”

2. Not really engineering
Barely a science

3. Typical day

4. 50% 30%
Coding 10%
10%
Design
Meetings
Dicking about on the internet
Highly Scientific Chart

5. 50% 30%
Coding
Coding 10%
10%
Design
Meetings
Dicking about on the internet
Highly Scientific Chart

6. 50% 30%
Coding
Coding 10%
10%
Design
Design
Meetings
Dicking about on the internet
Highly Scientific Chart

7. 50% 30%
Coding
Coding 10%
10%
Design
Design
Meetings
Meetings
Dicking about on the internet
Highly Scientific Chart

8. 50% 30%
Coding
Coding 10%
10%
Design
Design
Meetings
Meetings
Dicking about on the internet
Messing about on the internet
Highly Scientific Chart

11. Personal history

12. 1982

13. ZX Spectrum 48k

19. BSc Computer Science

20. Sapient
1998-2001

21. State Street Bank
2001-2004

22. Bose
2004-2008

23. Current TV
2008

24. T RA N S F O R M I N G T H E S O C IA L W E B
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) or x[1][4].upper()
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25. SuperPoke! Pets

26. AWESOME!

27. Study what you want

28. All the pieces fit

29. Open Source

31. JavaScript

32. microsoft.com/express

33. developer.apple.com

34. Python

35. greenteapress.com/
thinkpython

36. A secret. (shhhhhh!)

37. Questions?

38. Thank you.
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