Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Macallik86]

Out of curiosity, are all of u good at math?

I suck at it but I'm learning. My understanding is that there are base level statistics (summary statistics) and then the more advanced stats. I basically have a career based around summary stats (Reporting Analyst) but I am tryina get to the next level so I'm teaching myself things like regression analysis via books & YouTube right now

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

Out of curiosity, are all of u good at math?


Who suckin dem tiddys

I discover her channel on YouTube last week .

She knows what she is doing dressing like that to get those views up .

 

[Tony D'Amato]

I discover her channel on YouTube last week .

She knows what she is doing dressing like that to get those views up .

The real question is, would she make more on onlyfans than she make wit dem certs


Dat body the equivalent of 25 high level certs

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

You grow to love algorithms after the initial head-scratching

Yup. I’m finally catching on.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Stats is the only mathematical concept worth caring about imo

Linear Algebra, Discrete Math and some concepts of Calculus make understanding algorithms way easier among other things in software development

And don’t think about going into Machine Learning without these.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Also, how many of you here use Cython in your programs?

I have not. Python is one of my best languages though. I hope to maybe work with it one day.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

I have not. Python is one of my best languages though. I hope to maybe work with it one day.

Whats stopping you? I've recently started incorporating it in my projects and learnt a shyt ton of things in a short amount time because of it

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Whats stopping you? I've recently started incorporating it in my projects and learnt a shyt ton of things in a short amount time because of it

I’ve officially chosen Java as my main language. Going to Master it for the rest of the year. Going to make some apps and do projects and practice DS&A with it.

I love the OOP part of it and love it more then Python which I did exclusively for about 10months before I started learning Java.

 

[OSUBaneBrowns]

Updated my resume this morning with latest responsibilities that I do for my current job and my Python and SQL knowledge. Time to find something better out here.

I also thinking of during a small easy project for Python to learn more and be more comfortable. Maybe a Instagram/Twitter bot .

 

[Secure Da Bag]

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

nothing quite like the feeling of finally finding the source that obscure memory leak after you've been ploughing through your codebase for a few days

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I just watched a team explain their implementation of a tool that I implemented a couple months ago for my application and I'm sitting here like

They opted out of pulling a dependency directly at build time because they were pulling too many already? Like what sense does that make? Instead they download it essentially at runtime which is error prone. Our internal networking is shyt and God forbid they deploy this solution in production and that dependency can't be pulled

 

[Macallik86]

I know I'm late to the party but:

JavaScript is to the Google Suite what VBA is to the Microsoft Office Suite.

Just started automating some processes in Google Sheets using JavaScript. Also has "Record Macro" functionality if you don't know JavaScript but want to automate

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I know I'm late to the party but:

JavaScript is to the Google Suite what VBA is to the Microsoft Office Suite.

Just started automating some processes in Google Sheets using JavaScript. Also has "Record Macro" functionality if you don't know JavaScript but want to automate

Why Javascript? Shouldn't they be promoting their language?

EDIT: Go and Dart

 

[Macallik86]

Why Javascript? Shouldn't they be promoting their language?

EDIT: Go and Dart

Didn't know so I looked at their wiki page and one of the source articles is an interview of the Google employee that pitched it. Apparently it has been around since 2009?

How did you use this experience to create Apps Script at Google?
I worked on the Google Sheets team when I first joined Google in 2007. At the time, the team was evaluating how to make our spreadsheet APIs easier to use. With Hypercard and JavaScript still bounding around in my head, I kicked off a stealth, side project to build a rough demo of what a JavaScript-based scripting language for spreadsheets could look like. This was the start of Apps Script.

Why did you choose JavaScript as the programming language?
I was certainly influenced by my previous experience with JavaScript, but also saw how popular the language was becoming in web programming. Specifically, there were a lot of non-traditional programmers using JavaScript to add small bits of dynamic functionality to websites, and the syntax was becoming well known. I still had Hypercard on my mind, and I wanted a language that anyone could code in.

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