Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[dterpsss]

Yep.

Ok with 4 year CS with decent grades you should have steady recruiter contact from FAANG. Albeit you gotta make it through many interviewers and Hiring committee to get to the promise land. Best of luck if you decide now is the time, you got this

 

[JahFocus CS]

Gonna read through You Don't Know JS to get a deeper understanding of scope, closures, and the this keyword. Want to develop my OOP JavaScript knowledge throughout next year and get nice with React.

 

[Freedman]

Been learning Python and I'm not a fan of the indentation thing at all like who thought that was a good idea

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Been learning Python and I'm not a fan of the indentation thing at all like who thought that was a good idea

If you use a text editor like VS Code turn on whitespace rendering.

 

[Takerstani]

I'm up for my first backend job and I have a homework assignment that I'm working through, but I can't figure out how to properly parse a binary(dat) file? Anyone have experience with this? In Javascript

Been learning Python and I'm not a fan of the indentation thing at all like who thought that was a good idea

I work almost exclusively with JS, now, but I learned Python, as well. I love Python, but was actually a minus for me, I like the semicolon at the end with JS, contrary to a lot of other people. It provides a certain structure. I grew used to making sure the indentation was right and code editors helped a lot, because many did it automatically. Python is my favorite programming language, but I hated Django so much, I had to go in another direction, preferring backend programming.

 

[KingDanz]

just switched from sublime to visual studio code.

 

[Matt504]

I'm up for my first backend job and I have a homework assignment that I'm working through, but I can't figure out how to properly parse a binary(dat) file? Anyone have experience with this? In Javascript

can you share any more details on this homework assignment?

 

[Takerstani]

can you share any more details on this homework assignment?

They give the fields/section headers of each section of information, and we have to parse the dat file and do calculations on these records by field. For instance, calculate the number of credits and find information by user ID. The delimiter is "|"

 

[Matt504]

They give the fields/section headers of each section of information, and we have to parse the dat file and do calculations on these records by field. For instance, calculate the number of credits and find information by user ID. The delimiter is "|"

In that case, it should be no different than parsing a csv, if you don't mind parsing the dat file, I can give it a shot and share my strategy via jsbin.com

 

[Takerstani]

In that case, it should be no different than parsing a csv, if you don't mind parsing the dat file, I can give it a shot and share my strategy via jsbin.com

Sent a message. Thanks

 

[TrebleMan]

What are some common algorithm questions any other front end engineers here get? Going to start studying up on some algos/data structures.

 

[TrebleMan]

I'm up for my first backend job and I have a homework assignment that I'm working through, but I can't figure out how to properly parse a binary(dat) file? Anyone have experience with this? In Javascript

Would this post help?
reading .dat files with javascript

That new FileReader() part in general seems sort of promising:
FileReader

 

[Takerstani]

Would this post help?
reading .dat files with javascript

That new FileReader() part in general seems sort of promising:
FileReader

Going to try this method I've found, then if this doesn't work, I'll give these a try and see if they will. Thanks

 

[PikaDaDon]

God I love Kotlin

val f:File = File( "test.dat" )
val a = ByteArray(100 ) { floor(Math.random() * 20).toByte() }
f.writeBytes( a )

test.dat

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val a:ByteArray = readByteFromFile( "test.dat" )

val b:Stream<Byte> = a.toList().stream()
b.filter{ it % 2 == 0 }
    .distinct()
    .sorted()
    .forEach{ print("$it ") }

fun readByteFromFile(fileName:String): ByteArray = File(fileName).readBytes()

 

[TrebleMan]

...

I'm learning Kotlin right now too, really interested in the Arrow-kt library.

I want an alternative to Haskell (spectacular language, but makes some easy things like debugging difficult and the library system + ecosystem are weak) and don't like Scala that much. Kotlin looks a lot less verbose than Scala.

That language is growing real quick.