Coding skills
Looking for a competitive advantage over your peers when applying to jobs? Learn some basic code.
Why learn to code?
With a little bit of coding knowledge, any business manager can be more productive at their job by writing little bits of basic code in MS Excel or on websites. It’s a great tool.
Software is eating the world. Even Hewlett-Packard, a company that has a long history in building hardware-based products, is considering changing their entire company model to focus on software. Don't get left behind.
Where can I learn to write code – for free?
- In person: Girl Develop It Detroit (not just for girls)
- Online: Code Academy (free and awesome)
I learned some code, but how do I demonstrate this on my resume?
Projects. There is a social network called GitHub that programmers use to work on their code in a social way. Brian Mulloy, software executive for Apigee Detroit, said when we hire someone we ask for her/his GitHub page. Here's the GitHub page for a summer intern at Apigee San Jose: https://github.com/ishaantaylor
"Along with listing languages on a resume, we can go look at the code that’s been written and see side projects they’ve created or contributed. It removes a ton of risk for us," Mulloy said.
What kind of projects would you like to see from a business student?
"Write a little program that searches the web for certain industry specific trends. For example, a program that searches Twitter and Facebook for mentions of GM, Nike and Apple and put the data in a spreadsheet for analysis," Mulloy said.