Seattle Girls' School Presentation
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We were lucky to have Seattle Girls' School visit the LiquidPlanner offices. Here's the presentation from their visit.
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Seattle Girls' School Presentation
- 1. Problem, Meet Solution An Intro to Software Development Liz Pearce, CEO Brett Bender, Platform Director
- 2. Software is Like Cake 1 Ingredients Name Address Email 2 Steps Check zip code against city and state Store information in database 3 Output User is signed up
- 3. What do computers do? Take input Arithmetic 1+1, 2*2, 4/3 Give output Logic A and B, C or D, if E then F
- 4. What’s great about computers? • They do exactly what you tell them • They don’t argue • They never get tired or bored
- 5. What’s not so great about computers? • They do what you say, not what you mean • They’re not creative or inventive
- 6. Idea Concept Reality
- 7. Idea Concept Reality
- 8. Idea Concept Reality
- 9. Idea Concept Reality
- 10. What does a software developer do? • Ask a lot of questions • Make a careful, detailed plan • Double-check the plan • Write a little code, see if it works, write some more • Test, fix, revise • Solve problems! Liz / Brett Circa 2007
- 11. How does the web work?
- 12. Many Languages
- 13. By The Numbers Our Code • 30 developer years • 20,000 revisions • 150,000 lines Our Customers • 175,000 accounts • 350,000 projects • 4.5 million tasks • 2 million hours logged
- 14. Idea Concept Reality
- 15. After 7 Years…. 1700 (Customers Worldwide) 16,000 (Users) 50+ (Countries) 37 (Employees)
- 17. Software Companies Need You! • Washington State has a labor shortage of 25,000 unfilled highly skilled jobs • 85% of computer programmers are guys • Why should they have all the fun? (and make all the money?)
- 18. Learn • http://code.org • http://codecademy.com • http://scratch.mit.edu/
Editor's Notes
- Entrepreneurs are problem-solvers. We are driven to make things better with new products and services. I want to tell you about the problem our founders were trying to solve: how to help teams of people – all contributing in their own ways – collaborate together and come up with a schedule they can trust. They had an idea about how to solve that problem with software. They envisioned a tool that uses math to predict completion dates based on three inputs: how important the work is (priority), how much availability the team has, and how big the work is (best case, worst case).
- This is what we call “the back of the napkin phase” – you’re literally starting to sketch your idea, sometimes on paper. This is an example of one of the sketches our founder made of LiquidPlanner before we had a line of code written. You can see that it’s talking about “Schedule Confidence.”
- Here’s we’ve moved to the next stage – we call is “UI” for short.
- This is what we call a “Spec” – short for Product Specifications. You might also call them Requirements. To be more precise, this is a “Functional” spec. This tells the person writing the software “How it’s supposed to work”.