Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[levitate]

2 years. $75k

 

[semtex]

Is an associates in software development a good bet?

I work with people who don't even have degrees and are great devs. But yes that's a good bet.

 

[Ayo]

Mad late to this thread but to those who are just starting out and looking to make it with no formal education -

- learn git
- maintain a place for the stuff you build. everything you build. Even when you're learning. Commit everything
- this is your portfolio
- you can look back at it too and judge your progress.
- go back and rewrite some stuff. Combine ideas.

it's easier for the front end guys to have stuff to show.

 

[levitate]

Created a mini Python program to automate calculations that I routinely do at work.

Was running into a bit of an issue with the calculated values. Turns out I used the wrong "round" function.

I needed a "roundup" function...which Python does not explicitly have (v 2.7 at least)

Need to use "ceil" function instead.

round(1.25) = 1, whereas math.ceil(1.25) = 2

You gotta be careful with this programming shyt.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Mad late to this thread but to those who are just starting out and looking to make it with no formal education -

- learn git
- maintain a place for the stuff you build. everything you build. Even when you're learning. Commit everything
- this is your portfolio
- you can look back at it too and judge your progress.
- go back and rewrite some stuff. Combine ideas.

it's easier for the front end guys to have stuff to show.

I`m not a dev, but can I store School projects I did in SQL Server in Github?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I`m not a dev, but can I store School projects I did in SQL Server in Github?

I'm fairly certain you can. Either way your should make one, there's no downside to it.

 

[Apollo Creed]

I'm fairly certain you can. Either way your should make one, there's no downside to it.

I dont have classes this summer so I`m going to read up on it.

I assume it would be me just uploading my SQL code and it can be compiled or something? Like I can put the code and have comments in the code explaining why I did what? I still have the code for a bunch of my assignments so I`d probably just need to re read the projects to understand the context for why I did what I did.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Check
SQL/MySQL at master · dhaval1406/SQL · GitHub
In not familiar with SQL too much so I can't tell you too much. But you can pretty much host any type of programming project. All it is is version control.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Check
SQL/MySQL at master · dhaval1406/SQL · GitHub
In not familiar with SQL too much so I can't tell you too much. But you can pretty much host any type of programming project. All it is is version control.

Got it so I assume I can just upload the relevant files, and Git helps me manage them? Like I said it would be just me uploading projects. I`m taking a Tableau course next spring so I def want that stuff on there. This helps a lot.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Got it so I assume I can just upload the relevant files, and Git helps me manage them? Like I said it would be just me uploading projects. I`m taking a Tableau course next spring so I def want that stuff on there. This helps a lot.

Yeah. I suggest you watch some YouTube videos on using the command line tools and upload some of your stuff.

Basically you designate a folder as the root and that forms the project structure, bringing in all of the files and folders inside. You commit changes and then push them to GitHub. If you make a mistake you can pull a previous version of your project from GitHub OR if you want to test a new feature you can fork from the master branch to avoid messing up what you've done.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Yeah. I suggest you watch some YouTube videos on using the command line tools and upload some of your stuff.

Basically you designate a folder as the root and that forms the project structure, bringing in all of the files and folders inside. You commit changes and then push them to GitHub. If you make a mistake you can pull a previous version of your project from GitHub OR if you want to test a new feature you can fork from the master branch to avoid messing up what you've done.

I`m not taking classes this summer so I`ll try to research. Thanks

 

[KritNC]

I`m not taking classes this summer so I`ll try to research. Thanks

It takes about a week to get used to a simple git workflow and it is invaluable. It takes a few months to fully understand using git/github in a team environment but using version control will save you countless hours.

 

[Apollo Creed]

It takes about a week to get used to a simple git workflow and it is invaluable. It takes a few months to fully understand using git/github in a team environment but using version control will save you countless hours.

I`m a BA not a dev, but I assume I could use Github as a repository for functional documentation/specs?

 

[kevm3]

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[Ayo]

I`m a BA not a dev, but I assume I could use Github as a repository for functional documentation/specs?

Sure why not. When I taught a night class I had all my students keep their documentation, research, specs on there and they even submitted it to me from there.