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Should you learn how to code?

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January 28, 2015
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Should you learn how to code?

Slides to the talk I gave at GeekGirl Meetup Launch in Singapore

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Elisha Tan

January 28, 2015

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Transcript

  1. @elishatan Should you code? Elisha Tan Founder, Learnemy

  2. @elishatan Check out my mad tech skills yo

  3. Online marketplace for in-person classes

  4. @elishatan You don’t need to be a programming expert

  5. @elishatan Wix Unbounce SnapPages Strikingly

  6. @elishatan

  7. @elishatan

  8. @elishatan

  9. @elishatan Why should you code? 1. Communicate with offshore team

    2. Hiring developers 3. Test ideas quickly 4. Make better business decisions 5. Fix non-tech related codes

  10. @elishatan Programming is easy to pick up, hard to master.

    But it’s learnable!

  11. @elishatan rails g scaffold my_note_taking_app title:string content:text materials:string

  12. @elishatan ThoughtWorks 87B Amoy Street #03/04 Singapore 069906 ! http://bit.ly/railsgirlsJAN

  13. @elishatan ! [email protected] @elishatan !