elementary school career day - software engineer

SOFTWARE ENGINEERDEVELOPER, PROGRAMMER, IT GUY, WEB DUDE, CODE MONKEY

WHICH IS THE “CODE MONKEY?”

ALL OF THEM!

That’s me presenting to professionals in Austin

DAILY DUTIES

• Client meetings

• Fix bugs

• Study/Research

• Design new solutions/features

• Write code

• Test bug fixes/new code

• Help co-workers/clients

WHAT IT TAKES

• Education

• Math, Applied Sciences

• College degree*

• Always want to learn

• Sometimes crazy hours

• Average salary after college

• Nation: $61,000

• San Antonio: $55,000

• Average salary – experienced

• Nation: $99,000 - $114,000

• San Antonio: $88,000-$103,000

• The Big Time – Kevin Systrom, Bill Gates

WHAT IT MAKES

MY STATS

• Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science - 2005

• 9 years since graduating

• 2 years of part-time during school

• Focused on web, Microsoft technologies/languages

• Book, blogging, speaking

• Product development, corporate, consulting

• Side projects – mobile, web

GET STARTED NOW!

• Kodu, SmallBasic, Scratch

• Web languages

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

• JavaScript (JS)

• Cascading StyleSheets (CSS)

• C#, C++, Obj-C, Java

• Lego Mindstorms, Arduino, Raspberry Pi