Software Engineer Jess Lilly - Macatawa Bay School Career Day 3/5/2003

 

Introduction

 

What do I do?

 

My Typical Day

 

Pros and Cons

 

Skills

 

How to become a Software Engineer

 

Job Opportunities

 

Questions

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Skills:

  • Scientific Method: Troubleshooting.  Why is the computer doing this?  How can we fix it.  Guess and Check Method.

  • Programming Languages: VB, C++, Java

  • The way Computers work: Hardware, Operating Systems ( Windows ), Machine Language ( 101010001010111100010 )

  • Team work:  Don't worry if someone in your team creates a bug.  It happens to all of us.  Work together to fix it and we move on.

  • Communication: Writing, Customer Support.