Why engineers should code

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These are the slides from my short talk at the May 2014 EMC users' group meeting in Seattle. It's a personal story about what is possible in terms of learning to write code and to serve as encouragement for [infrastructure] engineers to develop themselves, their careers, and empathy for others in their organizations.

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Why engineers

*should*

code()

fun

https://twitter.com/yodascatfacts

learn

https://learn.adafruit.com/photocells

meet

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22898894/simple-flow-control-in-nodejs

share

https://github.com/briantwalter

Get github

Start off right with version control

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Textmate

Vim or nano

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start

take a book

thanks

@briantwalter

fun. learn. meet. share.