Web Developer
Aragon High School Career Day 2019
Jon Johnson
jrjohnson
jrjohnson_
What is a Web Developer?
A web developer is a programmer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or applications that are run over HTTP : CSS OR HTML from a web server to a web browser.
Wikipedia
No. Seriously.
A web developer is a programmer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or applications that are run over HTTP : CSS OR HTML from a web server to a web browser.
Wikipedia
No. Seriously.
A web developer is a programmer who specializes in, or is specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or applications that are run over HTTP : CSS OR HTML from a web server to a web browser.
A Web Developer is someone who builds websites
Websites Like
For Brands Like
And Things Like
What do I do?
- Work at UCSF
- On a team other developers, designers, support people
- Working to make the world a better place together
Ilios
- Ilios helps teach doctors, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, physical therapists, and veterinarians
- It's used by a few dozen schools around the world
- It's my small contribution to making the world a better place instead of working at a big company driven by proffit
Open Source Software
- Open source is about writing things that anyone can use for free
- Aside from Ilios I contribute to tools that make the web faster
Interested Yet?
Starting Salary
~$100,000
hired.com State of Software Engineers
Still need to be convinced?
Work from Anywhere in the World
Never Set an Alarm
Collaborate with Awesome People
Twitter isnβt all bad afterall ππ And the Web community is so full of good people it fills my heart with joy. Iβve always felt blessed to be doing what I do and to be a part of this community. π
β Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) March 3, 2019
A Day in the Life (Working Remote)
- 930am Wake up, check email, checkin with team online
- 10am Build something, fix someting, write some code
- 2pm Take pupps to the park, grab something to eat, checkin with team online
- 8pm - 10pm learn something new, finish up code, plan for tomorrow
A Day in the Life (In the office)
- 9:30am Get in, Say hello to foks, and grab some coffee with my team, standup meeting
- 10am Meet with users, planning on the whiteboard, organizing
- 12pm Lunch with team
- 1pm Build something, fix someting, write some code
- 4pm Go Home, Relax
- 10pm - midnight build something
Special Events
Tools of our Team
Typical Entry Level Responsibilities
- Learn the tools of your team
- Plan and execute basic features, bug fixes
- Ask Questions. Ask Questions. Seriously Ask Questions
- This is a young field with an apprenticeship style education, take advantage of your team and ask them everything
What makes a good developer
- Confidence to put your work out into the world
- Working with others
- Desire to solve problems and figure stuff out
The most important skill to have as a programmer is the ability to teach yourself new things effectively and efficiently.
β Ali Spittel π (@ASpittel) February 28, 2019
You're going to be constantly growing and picking up new technologies. The ability to do that is more important than any individual tool or technology.
Biggest misconception people have about programmers is that we work with 0s and 1s all day.
β Yechiel K (@yechielk) March 10, 2019
I'm sorry, but
01100111 01101001 01100010 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101000
is gibberish to me too...
I went from being a competent lawyer to being an incompetent coder in a matter of weeks. After 2 years in this industry coding still isn't my strongest skill. But sucking at something taught me a lesson I will never forget: I need to overcome my own ego on an almost daily basis.
β Sonia Gupta (@soniagupta504) March 7, 2019
College or Not?
Formal Education
Stackoverflow 2018 Developer Survey
Typical Majors
Stackoverflow 2018 Developer Survey
- Many of the best developers I know have degrees in music, film, history, or something else
- But it takes a long time to learn to code, whatever your major you should be practicing every day
How Developers Learn
Stackoverflow 2018 Developer Survey
What I love about my job
- I get to build things
- I built this podium, but it's not great and it could be better
- With software you can change it even after you finish
- I get to make a difference
What I hate about my job
- It's impossible to know even a small part of everything
- It's easy to feel like an imposture
Who's Hiring?
- Right now everyone
- Probably won't last forever
- But there is a lot of untapped market
- Probably the last job that will be replaced with robots
- Increasing Options for Remote will probably drive down wages
- Success Advice
- Related Fields
- Do it over again (I would start earlier, got stuck thinking this wasn't for me)
How to get started today
- Build your own website
- Learn all the parts
- Make it whatever you want it to be
- Build websites for anyone you can find as they challenge you to do new things try and do them
- Your first several tries are going to be pretty bad, keep at it
- Figure out what you enjoy (design, making things fit together, talking to users) there are a lot of different jobs under this umbrella
I just had a full circle moment in an Uber. I remember driving for Lyft a little over a year ago and picking up this guy at Netflix and feeling so inspired after my convo with him. My driver heard me on a call and just asked what I did at Netflix. It hit me...Iβm now that guy. ππΎ
β Kevin J. Stuckey (@KevinJStuckey) March 8, 2019
Discussion / Questions?
jrjohnson
jrjohnson_
Thanks
- AHS for the invitation (Go Dons!)
- UCSF Library
- Ilios Team
Ask me a question and get yourself some candy!