Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[TheAnointedOne]

The Deadlock Empire

 

[Macallik86]

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[F K]

Wassup everybody, I got a question about software testing careers.

I've been studying manual testing for the past year and I'm ready to hit the job market.

However, I was told that with just manual testing skills, I wont be able to find a job unless I know some automation.

I was told that companies want employees to also have automation skills at handy,

if, or when, the software product goes through automation testing.

Can any of yall verify whether this is true or not?

Peace.

yeah you have to do automation

check out this site
Test Automation University | Applitools

 

[mannyrs13]

Quarantine got me bored/motivated so figured I'd learn something new in the middle of studying for the A+ cert. Been messing with html this week. Not too advanced but at a high beginner level I would say. I see theres some semantic html thing which is the next thing I wanna learn. I'm not much of a coding guy but figure I might as well learn a bit and open up some more doors or opportunities when the quarantine ends. I hear that CSS comes after html so hopefully I can do that and then Java. My goal is Python and I've messed around with it and its definitely advanced. I think the issue is, and its one that I keep reading about, is getting past the initial training that seems uninteresting. Once I get past that hurdle, maybe it'll get better. I want to learn the other languages first to work my way up. HTML is so easy even tho anything may seem difficult at first but taking the time and dedicating should make it go smoother. I got the basics down and can do many things including add surveys on the page. Good thing about programming is there are plenty of resources online and if I get stuck I can look at some notes I copied down or one of the sites. Sometimes it just takes nothing but taking my time and calmly double checking everything. Like earlier I wanted to have a link to another part of my page and I had done it before but this section wasnt working. After constantly checking and wondering what went wrong I realized that I was missing a character in the code and thats why it didnt work. Just gotta keep analyzing things and looking for small details to see what might be wrong. Hopefully now I can learn more about making websites more presentable. I already know how to add pictures and links, but who knows what I can do from here. Want to learn how to build polls and see results, and who knows what else. Its interesting because I can look at the source code of a page like this one and even tho most of it is in a foreign language, I can look thru and see tags that I'm already familiar with.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

@mannyrs13 You need to learn Flexbox, CSS Grid, and Javascript next.

 

[wastedmermaid]

What do yall think about a DevOps type of role? Like would it be a good path to go down? I've dabbled with a few of the tools they use (Jenkins, git, docker, etc) and it seemed pretty interesting to me so I would be willing to learn more.

 

[Kwabena]

I love O'Reilly books. Manning Publications got a lot of gems - Their NodeJS book is the best I've read

 

[F K]

What do yall think about a DevOps type of role? Like would it be a good path to go down? I've dabbled with a few of the tools they use (Jenkins, git, docker, etc) and it seemed pretty interesting to me so I would be willing to learn more.

you're basically a sysadmin who can code or a coder who knows his way around Linux. The problem with dev ops is that it is very vague and different depending on the place. some places it's all ci/cd and you are basically a test Automator, some places you are handling all the infra. The pay seems very good i'm trying to move in that direction myself.

 

[wastedmermaid]

you're basically a sysadmin who can code or a coder who knows his way around Linux. The problem with dev ops is that it is very vague and different depending on the place. some places it's all ci/cd and you are basically a test Automator, some places you are handling all the infra. The pay seems very good i'm trying to move in that direction myself.

Yeah where im at it seems to be a bit more on the infrastructure side with some ci/cd. But, like you mentioned it does seem very vague. I feel like its one of those roles were you have to know a bit of everything. So, me being still newish idk

 

[KingDanz]

Anyone that creates a database in Python with SQLite, can you connect to the database remotely? Seems like MySQL, PostgreSQL is the only option to do this. I'd rather use a database manager like PHPmyadmin, DBeaver or HeidiSQL.... rather than command line.

 

[Kwabena]

This may be a poor learning mechanism but it works for me - Drilling concepts into my head. Perfect antidote to imposter syndrome once you're done

 

[F K]

Anyone that creates a database in Python with SQLite, can you connect to the database remotely? Seems like MySQL, PostgreSQL is the only option to do this. I'd rather use a database manager like PHPmyadmin, DBeaver or HeidiSQL.... rather than command line.

Sqlite creates a .db or sqlite file afaik. Idk how to connect remotely to it.

 

[Kwabena]

JavaScript brehs... Node got competition
Deno (software) - Wikipedia

 

[F K]

JavaScript brehs... Node got competition
Deno (software) - Wikipedia

typescript is really killing the game rn huh

 

[Kwabena]

typescript is really killing the game rn huh

I’m seeing more and more employers requesting it refactoring their codebase from JS to TS