Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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So this semester I've got Computability, Data Structures and I'm going to be learning Machine Code and Assembly. If y'all have any tips or resources so I can get good it would be greatly appreciated.
Computability course is going to be a bytch because I brain dumped all of my discrete maths knowledge over the summer smh.
Watch all the Computerphile videos on the topic(s).
And also watch the MIT and Harvard courses on youtube.
MIT OpenCourseWare
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by breh
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depending on how deep you need to go.
I graduated years ago and am watching some of these to prepare for some upcoming interviews.
This is a good bunch of free programming tests
1. Iterations lesson - Learn to Code - Codility
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If you have the time to watch breh's video. Do you agree with his methodology for learning how to program?
1) Understanding the "Roots" (learn the syntax e.g how do I loop or print to a file)
2) Understand the Programming Logic (How do I make decisions, loops, read, write, calculate)
3) The structure (Code line, Functions, Classes, and Modules) -- Organized code when it's starting to get big. make code modular
@Obreh WinfreyI say this coming from I.T. background looking to adding programming to my skillset to into DevOps. I like his teaching style.
see: Computer science - Wikipedia
1) Understanding the "Roots" (learn the syntax e.g how do I loop or print to a file)
I agree but I think the roots are more fundamental than that.
i. Physical
The roots are understanding the device that you are working with - i.e. a computer.
ii. Logical
Understanding that everything boils down to 1 and 0.
2) Understand the Programming Logic (How do I make decisions, loops, read, write, calculate)
At the base computing means doing one of 6 ops.
i. move left to a location
ii. move right to a location
iii. read
iv. write 1
v. right 0
vi. do nothing
which as breh says in the video maps to
1. sequence
2. decision
3. repetition
3. Abstraction
David Wheeler said: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"
Or in other words it's 1's and 0's all the way down and as the keymaker (Matrix) said "It is one system built on top of another".
So yes high-level languages are just an abstraction on the 0's and 1's that your computer understands (TM) and as such are just sophisticated syntactic sugar.
Given these if you understand the hardware somewhat, master c/c++, understand some assembler and become proficient in a functional language all other languages become easy to learn.
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Even in the industry outside of a few select places one of the hardest things you will find is getting people to understand how #3. applies.
So what's the verdict on bootcamps? Looking at one in the RDU area, I know there's no guarantee regardless of what the school says and you get out what you put in. I've also read a lot about bootcamp fatigue and graduates flooding the market unprepared.
If you have a degree, you should just self-study. Some bootcamps are great for networking, but you paying x,xxx for that and something you can learn on your own. Some bootcamp grads don't know data structures and knowledge that obtain from schooling. But as you program more, you'll gain that.
What about non Bachelors/non CS? Been seeing being able to code as more of a requirement than a degree, of course some have minimum Bachelors. And yeah I can just attend some meetups for the networking.
It may depend on the site and browser. I'm pretty sure most browsers will load pages asynchronously, so it won't wait for everything to be downloaded before it serves you the page. Each picture can start downloading at the same time rather than waiting on the previous to finish. I'm also sure that some sites might employ a design that will only download things that will be rendered for the user. So something hidden by a spoiler won't be seen until clicked, which would then trigger the images to load. Somebody who knows web technologies should come check my math on this though
.As far as The Coli goes, straight up images look like they're always downloaded while embedded media isn't loaded until the browser renders that part of the page.
PikaDaDon
Thunderbolt Them Suckers
Currently trying to run 6 Sorting Algorithms on One Million Element Arrays of Random Doubles on my crappy ass 6 year old PC
Why?
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
School assignment for an Algorithms class. Had to implement Selection Sort, Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Merge Sort, Bucket Sort, and QUick Sort and then run them on the the arrays and measure the Execution time
PikaDaDon
Thunderbolt Them Suckers
You having trouble with the assignment?
Freedman
Choppers For Karate Nggas
Nah I had it figured out, I was just complaining because it took my PC almost an hour to run the entire program lol
Just my interview in Chicago for a small firm, and my backup (Infosys) gave me an offer letter where I get to stay at my home city. They got loan assistance and if I'm at home,. I'm paying food and internet for 2 months b4 getting shipped out.
if nothing works out, I've had interviews in 3 major cities and got flown out twice. I can't hate that.
if nothing works out, I've had interviews in 3 major cities and got flown out twice. I can't hate that.