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programming?
About Us
Sean Dulin
Software Developer
Retail Sales Team
Jim Lesch
IS Manager
Microsoft and Mobile Development Services
About You
It could help you get a (great) job
At General Mills we like to see that you have a technical
background – experience in coding is desirable.
Best Jobs in 2012 (careercast.com)
Automation as a competitive
advantage
“Scripting is heavily used in data center automation.” – IS Manager
“Manual work anyone can do. Your engineering skills [are powerful]
because you can automate it.” – IS Manager
Whooznear
SlatGrills.com
Fine. What should I learn?
Javascript
HTML 5
CSS
What we use at General Mills
VB.NET and C#
Microsoft’s Entity Framework (data access)
Heavy Web Application Development
HTML5, Javascript w/ Jquery, CSS
SQL Server and Oracle databases
Mobile Development (growing)
Visual Studio, XCode, Eclipse
PhoneGap (Cordova)
Where can I learn more online?
CodeCademy
Pluralsight (paid)
Tekpub (paid)
DimeCasts
PeepCode (paid)
NetTuts
ASP.NET
Channel9
TryRuby.org
StackOverflow
iPad and iPhone Development
Network and Share
Minnebar
Minnewebcon
Twin Cities Code Camp
Lots of user groups
Search EventBrite.com
Other technically distinguishing
factors when you want a job
Thank you!