Introduction To Codeby Matthew Bulat

M.Eng.Tech MACS CP Prince2 ITIL Chairman NQ Chapter Aust. Computer Society

What is code?Instructions in a computer program

In Microcontrollers, Smartphones, Tablets, Computers, Robots

What can a student do with coding?

Where can it lead me in the future?Information Communications Technology (ICT) has:

Highest job number category (15,000+) in Seek seek.com.au

600,000 Australians work in the ICT field (ACS Digital Pulse)

Coding is 1 of 97 Skills in the Information Age (SFIA)

Digital products can scale worldwide. Make once, sell many.

Most industries are changing with digital disruption

Digital Disruption

What would we like to achieve in our club?Which skills do we

have?Which skills do we

want?Build training to suit

See SFIA skills

Web Page Design Software Development

Hardware Development

Information Management Innovation Digital Branding &

Marketing

What do we need to know/do to get there?Hour of Code - 20 hours of tutorials - https://code.org/learn

Learn Programming - Many languages - http://www.w3schools.com/

Dev Guru - Programming reference PDFs - http://www.devguru.com/

Microsoft Education - 250+ free courses - https://mva.microsoft.com/

Google Training - Multiple products - https://apps.google.com/learning-center/

Arduino Hardware Programming - https://programmingelectronics.com/

Training Sites - http://www.sitepoint.com/ https://www.udemy.com https://www.udacity.com http://www.lynda.com/ https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.comptia.org/

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