Coding the future

 

 

@benbyford

Designer  / Coder

Games

Websites

Podcast

Teaching

What?

Who?

"Great coders are today's rockstars.
That's it."

 

"I want to write code!"

Will.i.am

What does it
look like?

How?

learning to code at 21yr

School

CodeClubs

Online

codecademy, BBC computing, scratch, code.org, kano.me, Youtube

Books (what are they?!!)

Code, coding for kids

Short courses

Decoded, General Assembly, coderdojo

 

Mentors / speak to pros and peers alike

All you need it a small amount of maths and a project to get you started

Education, skill and experience

 

Open source projects - github

portfolio

How does it make you feel?

Why?

Do you want to be a producer or consumer?

If something isn't right then change it

There isn't enough people for the amount of tech jobs

 

Well paid and flexible

Fountier technolgies

Artificial intelligence  & data analysis

Blockchain

Virtual reality / Augmented reality

If you can do anything with code!

 

What shouldn't we do?

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."

Jeff Hammerbacher, previously at Facebook

What could we do that is positive?

World hunger

Cancer research

make music

Going to Mars

Aging

internet access around the world

universal education

universal health care

economic security

The next Shakespeare

access to electricity

global warming

new economic models

visiting the bottom of the sea

unification of quantum theory and Einstein

Make games

Having the skill is one thing, but you must also have the imagination to help make a better world