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Strategies for learning the tech skills you always wanted

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WHY?

Can’t we all just watch Youtube videos?

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Hello!

I am Mashhood!

I work as an Engineering Lead at Sastaticket.pk

You can find me at @mashhoodr

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Hello!

This is Eric!

I am a Community Lead for GDG Kolachi

You can find me at @bhattieric

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Hi!

It’s Samrah!

I am a Software Engineer at Systems Limited

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Hey!

It’s Wajahat!

I am a Android Lead at Contour Software

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Hey Hey!

This is Ahsan

I work as a Senior Software Engineer at Klarna.

I’m a GDE in Web & Angular.

You can find me at @ahsan_ayz

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Find and Pick resources

Which sources are best.. when?

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Free Online Courses

Udemy, Coursera, Udacity...

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Paid Online Courses

Egghead.io, Frontend Masters, Wes Bos…

Caster.io, RayWenderlich

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University Courses

Mit.edu, stanford.edu...

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Youtube Tutorials

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Conference Videos on Youtube.

React Conf, ngConf, JSConf, Pycon, Firebase Dev Summit, Chrome Dev Summit, Google I/O, GopherCon...

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Experts on Twitter

Dan Abramov, Kent Dodds, Martin Fowler, Uncle Bob, Jake Wharton, Joe Birch

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Blogs + Newsletters

web.dev, Android Weekly, RayWenderlich.com

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Professional Workshops

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Hands on Codelabs

Google Codelabs, QwikLabs, etc

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Podcasts

Software Engineering Daily, DevnCode, Changelog...

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Books vs Blogs vs Videos vs Practice

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Books

Videos

Blogs

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How to approach learning

It’s not just about finding the right resources.

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Learn while solving a problem

  • Allows you to have a goal
  • Allows you to focus on something specific
  • Beware of getting too narrow minded when dealing with specific problems.

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Learn to share the knowledge

  • Conferences
  • Workshops
  • Peer mentoring
  • Technical writing
  • Stackoverflow

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Look into pre-written code

  • Github
  • Your work projects
  • Stackoverflow

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Compare with your past work

  • What mistakes did I make in the past?
  • Where have I improved the most?
  • What’s still missing?

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Commitment

Taking time out isn’t as easy sometimes.

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Use Mentorship to learn from the experience of others.

  • GDG Mentorship program

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It’s a tough time, and it is okay!

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Thanks!

Questions?

You can find us at:

@mashhoodr, @bhattieric, @WajahatKarim, @ahsan_ayz

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Instructions for use

EDIT IN POWERPOINT®

Click on the button under the presentation preview that says "Download as PowerPoint template". You will get a .pptx file that you can edit in PowerPoint.

Remember to download and install the fonts used in this presentation (you’ll find the links to the font files needed in the Presentation design slide)

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More info on how to use this template at www.slidescarnival.com/help-use-presentation-template

This template is free to use under Creative Commons Attribution license. You can keep the Credits slide or mention SlidesCarnival and other resources used in a slide footer.

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EDIT IN GOOGLE SLIDES

Click on the button under the presentation preview that says "Use as Google Slides Theme".

You will get a copy of this document on your Google Drive and will be able to edit, add or delete slides.

You have to be signed into your Google account.�

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Quotations are commonly printed as a means of inspiration and to invoke philosophical thoughts from the reader.

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This is a slide title

  • Here you have a list of items
  • And some text
  • But remember not to overload your slides with content

Your audience will listen to you or read the content, but won’t do both.

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BIG CONCEPT

Bring the attention of your audience over a key concept using icons or illustrations

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You can also split your content

White

Is the color of milk and fresh snow, the color produced by the combination of all the colors of the visible spectrum.

Black

Is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer space. It is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light.

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In two or three columns

Yellow

Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange.

Blue

Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum.

Red

Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.

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A picture is worth a thousand words

A complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image, namely making it possible to absorb large amounts of data quickly.

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Want big impact?

Use big image.

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Use charts to explain your ideas

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Gray

White

Black

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And tables to compare data

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Yellow

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Orange

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Maps

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our office

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89,526,124

Whoa! That’s a big number, aren’t you proud?

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89,526,124$

100%

185,244 users

That’s a lot of money

Total success!

And a lot of users

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Our process is easy

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Let’s review some concepts

Yellow

Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange.

Blue

Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum.

Red

Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.

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Yellow

Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange.

Blue

Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum.

Red

Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.

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You can insert graphs from Google Sheets

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Android project

Show and explain your web, app or software projects using these gadget templates.

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Place your screenshot here

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iPhone project

Show and explain your web, app or software projects using these gadget templates.

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Tablet project

Show and explain your web, app or software projects using these gadget templates.

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Desktop project

Show and explain your web, app or software projects using these gadget templates.

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Thanks!

Any questions?

You can find me at

  • @username
  • user@mail.me

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Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:

  • Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
  • Photographs by Unsplash

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Presentation design

This presentation uses the following typographies:

  • Titles: Work sans bold
  • Body copy: Work sans light

You can download the fonts on this page:

https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans/tree/master/fonts/desktop

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You don’t need to keep this slide in your presentation. It’s only here to serve you as a design guide if you need to create new slides or download the fonts to edit the presentation in PowerPoint®

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SlidesCarnival icons are editable shapes.

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This means that you can:

  • Resize them without losing quality.
  • Change fill color and opacity.
  • Change line color, width and style.

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Isn’t that nice? :)

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Examples:

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Now you can use any emoji as an icon!

And of course it resizes without losing quality and you can change the color.

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How? Follow Google instructions https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/730087240156643328

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