How to make software do your bidding,
even if you aren’t a software engineer
Jordan Wirfs-Brock
The Piton Foundation
@jordanwb
NNIP Ignite
May 12, 2011
My name is Jordan,
and I am not a programmer.
By 2012, there will be and estimated:
3 million professional software
developers
13 million “end-user” programmers – people
who program, but aren’t software engineers
(Source: Scaffidi, Shaw and Myers http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1092394)
Image credit: Slideshow Bruce (http://www.flickr.com/photos/springfieldhomer/)
= COMPUTER GEEK
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COMPUTER GEEK
Tip #1:
It pays to have a friend on the inside.
We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers
We can, we can, we can, we can, demolish forty beers
Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum all day, and come along with us
'Cause we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us!
Tip #2:
Be a tinkerer and a designer.
Tip #3:
Read The (F***ing) Manual
http://code.google.com/
Tip #4:
Do things multiple ways.
multiple
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Image credit: ALA – American Library Association, shared with a Creative Commons license.
Too hot…
…JUST RIGHT.
…too cold…
Tip #5:
Learn new tricks.
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user Chrkl, shared with a Creative Commons license.
“…end-user programmers don't know a
lot about computer science, and that
lack of knowledge hurts them.
…They mostly learn to program
through
.
…Not knowing much about computer
science means that they're inefficient at
searching. ”
Source: Mark Guzdial, “What do Scientists and Engineers Need to Know About Computer Science?” referring to Dorn and Guzdial, 2010,
“Learning on the Job: Characterizing the Programming Knowledge and Learning Strategies of Web Designers”
http://software-carpentry.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/
Tip #6:
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Image credits: Galio, Hannes Grobe, THOR
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