Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[KingDanz]

can anyone recommend a good version control software?.. i just been using backups and manually going through old code to retrieve

 

[Kid McNamara]

Easy money. Most employeers rather see some glitsy bullshyt than understand why it takes a week to code something they cant comprehend. I think there's more ui jobs out there also.

I'm learning javascript, and my god this is the goat language for the internet

Which employers? I strongly disagree with this, any medium-to-high level institution (Government, financial institutions, corporations, academia) will expose your bullshyt in seconds. If you're a sysadmin, you can get away with sloppiness and cover it up with aesthetics, but we expect computer scientists to know what they are doing when it comes to enterprise software, debugging, and engineering.

 

[Type Username Here]

I'm also in the position to get a startup off the ground. I haven't got a team, so i'm a single founder. I've fully developed the website(front end and back end), right now i'm thinking ...do i look for a source of investment(angel investor) and hire a team or do i continue alone until i build some traffic for the website?

I read the creator of PlentyOfFish Markus Frind maintained the website by himself for 4 years, until he decided to hire some employees. His net is worth 200 milly

Also any legal advice? I've got a copyright but how do you protect the concept and design architecture, is it worth it? I'm sure i can find some Twitter, Facebook clones. What's stopping these companies from suing ripoff sites?

I'm proficient in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript(JQuery), MySQL, Photoshop. I'm more of a web designer/idea guy than a developer but i have the skillset to code a website by myself. I'm by no means a genius programmer. I get frustrated looking at API and trying to integrate with cURL(PHP) .

We have a school resource helping us with the legal ramifications. They will get a cut if they help lock down investment, but it's a price to pay since we don't know shyt about that. What we're working on is highly specific, it's not really for general use per se. All of us have experiences with app development and each of us are trying to use that as potential future income source.

As far as stopping ripoffs, there isn't really much you can do on that front breh unless you got an army of lawyers. Just make sure you aren't violating some patent (damn near impossible for small timers) and be careful for patent trolls.

 

[zerozero]

can anyone recommend a good version control software?.. i just been using backups and manually going through old code to retrieve

Sign up for a free individual account here
https://github.com/

Download the client they have for their operating system... are you on windows or a mac?

I'll walk you through the concepts after you've signed up for an account

But basically in version control you start with some files
When you've finished working with them, you check them INTO version control
When someone else checks something into version control, you UPDATE your working copy
Then if you and the other person worked on the same file, you have to merge your edits
Then again you update the latest version into the repository

Try it, you'll like it

 

[Kid McNamara]

It is about CS too. I'm sure a lot of us here are familiar and work with CS concepts daily.

But zerozero makes a fine point, GUI/UI is extremely important. Most people don't know shyt about computers, they just want the programs to look nice and be easy to work with. It's our job to play the Wizard in Wizard of OZ.

I reject the notion that you can't develop programs and work on CS principles at the same time. That shyt is just old computer elitist bullshyt that has no place in today's work IMO.

In the interest of not sidetracking this thread, I'll let this go.

 

[Prodigital]

Which employers? I strongly disagree with this, any medium-to-high level institution (Government, financial institutions, corporations, academia) will expose your bullshyt in seconds. If you're a sysadmin, you can get away with sloppiness and cover it up with aesthetics, but we expect computer scientists to know what they are doing when it comes to enterprise software, debugging, and engineering.

Take a job in website design, which is what i was specifically talking about. There's tons on inefficient ways to bring similar concepts to reality.

Talking about the bolded tho, i can c/s, there's no room for slacking. But when it comes to ui..........

 

[Kid McNamara]

Take a job in website design, which what i was specifically talking about. There's tons on inefficient ways to bring similar concepts to reality.

Talking about the bolded tho, i can c/s, there's no room for slacking. But when it comes to ui..........

Fair enough.

 

[KingDanz]

Who here is good with regular expressions? Any good tutorials

 

[zerozero]

Who here is good with regular expressions? Any good tutorials

I don't know any good tutorials off the top of my head but if you post your sample and what you're trying to match maybe we can help

 

[KingDanz]

I don't know any good tutorials off the top of my head but if you post your sample and what you're trying to match maybe we can help

I already got an answer on stackoverflow but i don't remember anything i've learned previously on regular expressions. Too many symbols got me like

 

[Blackking]

Sign up for a free individual account here
https://github.com/
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I co sign this. I know a few people who just got hired... 1 phone interview.. after that they referenced their github.. I feel like the face to face was just to see if the person fit the culture... obviously they can write great code and the github , imo, should be included on ur resume.

I also feel like cockiness should be on your resume. fukk it. This isn't like other industries. Everyone want a 'rockstar' . So resume should be ur name, lil comment about how you bring great ideas to live through beautiful code, or some corny shyt... then ur jobs or freelance projects.

 

[Type Username Here]

In the interest of not sidetracking this thread, I'll let this go.

Which employers? I strongly disagree with this, any medium-to-high level institution (Government, financial institutions, corporations, academia) will expose your bullshyt in seconds. If you're a sysadmin, you can get away with sloppiness and cover it up with aesthetics, but we expect computer scientists to know what they are doing when it comes to enterprise software, debugging, and engineering.

Damn breh, let it go. This is a large field, people specialize and do different things.

I've done interviews and internships that test me vigorously on CS concepts, but I also know the importance of other things as well. When I'm making an app for a mobile device, aesthetics and user engagement is important. It's different skills for different objectives.

God damn breh, let's eat in this thread. Share what you know or think people should know.

 

[Type Username Here]

@BarNone @Brown_Pride

Please sticky this powerful thread

 

[Blackking]

Some free shyt... pretty specific. I don't think it's basic stuff, but I haven't looked into it yet.

https://www.coursera.org/course/designbiz -Design Thinking for Business Innovation
https://www.coursera.org/course/chuck101
https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix

https://www.coursera.org/course/cplusplus4c - basic understanding of algorithms and object-oriented software for c programmers
Introduction to Data Science - https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci

 

[No1]

@BarNone @Brown_Pride

Please sticky this powerful thread

People always say this, but we can't sticky everything. Something would have to come down, I have two other pending sticky requests.

I don't know. 8 or 9 stickies