Sarah Mei

The software industry needs all of you. We need your insights from music & art & history & the outside world to inform the code you write.

Don't let anyone tell you time spent outside engineering is wasted. You can be artists, musicians, volunteers, tutors, AND engineers.

Dear #CUSEC2017 students, you were so inspiring. I wish I'd met more of you. I know you'll go out & change the world with your whole selves

Often at work, you'll have to choose between being "right," and being effective.https://twitter.com/claryschneider/status/820013064443621381 …

Yep. My biggest hiring challenge is getting a sense of the real person via the awkward medium of a job application.https://twitter.com/kamalmarhubi/status/819669102893613056 …

Every technique that seems completely horrible has at least one legitimate use case where you, yes you, would use it.

my favourite things about computer science is how supporters of complementary and mutually beneficial techniques say the other ones are crap

If we structure our learning material to _just_ support folks who already want to be prof devs, we miss out on folks we could convert later.

Yep. Welcoming folks from underrepresented groups requires supporting a diversity of goals. We'll get some prof developers out of it too.https://twitter.com/craigbuchek/status/819602670562451456 …

I'm going to put some thought into how best to explicitly support those folks at places like @rubyconf & @railsconf. Your thoughts welcome

As a professional developer, I tend to forget that. In my advocacy work, I've focused on supporting people who want to take my path.

Knowing how to program helps all those folks achieve their goals, & we should support that, even though they'll never be software engineers.

People learn programming to achieve different goals - some to become developers, but others to be entrepreneurs, designers, artists.

The bigger idea in her talk is that not everyone who is learning to program is going to become a developer - and that is actually awesome.

Supports different audiences with different paths thru programming: "beginner/deployment" vs "beginner/webapp" vs "beginner/software design"

Great idea from @limedaring's #cusec2017 keynote: labels beyond beginner/intermediate/advanced for learning materials.

A framework's power is 10% technical, & 90% organizational. It focuses your team by removing questions they'd spend time disagreeing on.https://twitter.com/grepLeigh/status/819342241068093442 …