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Folks...

I have a cousin that's been a programmer for going on 15 years now. Has a masters in something too. What certifications can he look to acquire to get the higher paying jobs in IT or even programming?

I saw a thread on here last week and a lot of coli heads who work in IT pulled over $100k/year. Salute to y'all.
 

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Folks...

I have a cousin that's been a programmer for going on 15 years now. Has a masters in something too. What certifications can he look to acquire to get the higher paying jobs in IT or even programming?

I saw a thread on here last week and a lot of coli heads who work in IT pulled over $100k/year. Salute to y'all.

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Folks...

I have a cousin that's been a programmer for going on 15 years now. Has a masters in something too. What certifications can he look to acquire to get the higher paying jobs in IT or even programming?

I saw a thread on here last week and a lot of coli heads who work in IT pulled over $100k/year. Salute to y'all.
Seems odd that he wouldn't already have a 100k salary. What does he program and where is he located?
 

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Got to love Typescript. Lets me stay in the Javascript world, but also code in a fashion that can transfer over to other languages like C#.
 

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How comfortable were you guys with technology period before going into programming? I feel like really giving this a try as a career because programming can be fun and rewarding at times (:noah:) but when I was first started out in high school my mindset was too immature to take this seriously. The first time I had an issue I would be like :yeshrug: fukk it, despite the fact that I was rolling through projects.

Also what is the day-to-day life of a programmer in a job setting? Y'all be coding shyt for 8 straight hours before getting turned loose? :lupe:.

And how do we feel about web development as a career? I know it's a lot of questions but I have the privilege of going to school for the next two years essentially debt free and want to make sure I create the best path possible so I can just focus on school.
 

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I love it, so programming all day is no problem for me. It's a constant learning process. If you don't love programming, I'm not sure I'd jump in because you will have to spend a lot of time keeping up on new developments.
 
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That Javascript reference is a really difficult book to learn from. The javascript reference by nick zakas is better
 

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How comfortable were you guys with technology period before going into programming? I feel like really giving this a try as a career because programming can be fun and rewarding at times (:noah:) but when I was first started out in high school my mindset was too immature to take this seriously. The first time I had an issue I would be like :yeshrug: fukk it, despite the fact that I was rolling through projects.

Also what is the day-to-day life of a programmer in a job setting? Y'all be coding shyt for 8 straight hours before getting turned loose? :lupe:.

And how do we feel about web development as a career? I know it's a lot of questions but I have the privilege of going to school for the next two years essentially debt free and want to make sure I create the best path possible so I can just focus on school.

Day to Day is dumb scrum meetings, messing around on the coli, and maybe about an hour of actual development lol.
 

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Any of you using any phone apps? I'm starting to get off my lazy ass and I'm using Sololearn and enki. I'm fukkin behind
 

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About to get back into Game Development. Really haven't touched it in 5 months or so ( Female + Drama got in the way, lesson learned :snoop: ) Plus work really picked up. But one of the things I love about programming is you can take what you do at work and put it into side projects to make $$$$$.

Picked up this book.




About to be back at it:ohlawd:
 

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