Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[H@LLOW]

If you want it, go for it.

 

[Cwilk02]

Anyone got a tip for someone who is looking to get into the industry? I'm taking a course to become a software engineer in Chicago next year hopefully

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Anyone got a tip for someone who is looking to get into the industry? I'm taking a course to become a software engineer in Chicago next year hopefully

Have grit. It will require a lot of sacrife of your social life when you are starting out and trying to sharpen your skill.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Anyone got a tip for someone who is looking to get into the industry? I'm taking a course to become a software engineer in Chicago next year hopefully

Constantly keep in mind that being the average student who does the bare minimum will make getting a job extremely difficult come graduation time. Obviously keep your grades up, but pay particular attention when algorithms are the topic because that's going to be what secures the job for you. Apply to internships early and often (as in year round) everywhere, and think outside the box on the companies. Learn new things outside of class, and get used to doing that because staying on top of new technologies is what keeps you marketable and working on interesting things. Also get good at googling shyt because that's what keeps you employed . Also, network, network, network. Knowing someone who can skip you past the bullshyt is invaluable.

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Aint that a bytch. This deserves a thread on its own just to piss off thecoli

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I would be willing to help you out. I started from scratch and landed a job in 6 months. I work from home and get to build pretty cool shyt. When I first started learning last summer I thought it would be impossible to break into the industry but if you work CONSISTENTLY at it you will have a chance. The beginning is the hardest part but once you get past that you should be ok. The links others have posted are great but I would recommend either Learn to code and help nonprofits or Learn Web Development for Free Using Ruby on Rails | The Odin Project. If you make it through either of those programs I can basically guarantee you will be hired. The are much more comprehensive then the other sites.


Let me know if you got any questions

Im doing the Odin Project right now

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Wait. Unemployed people sent scouts to other companies to find them jobs.

 

[jajahoe]

Man I'm helping some guys on a different team from my normal team ingest some data in Cassandra and build a rest service to serve it on azure. They got everything fukked up. They have one git repo for all their code. Legit 10-15 apps in one repo. And their pipeline to deploy to azure is the dumbest shyt I ever seen. And our teams might combine in the future so we would have to fix all the stuff they got fukked up

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I think I'm going to dabble in React Native. Try to put together a real simple random name generator.

 

[Afro]

Aint that a bytch. This deserves a thread on its own just to piss off thecoli

Wait. Unemployed people sent scouts to other companies to find them jobs.

They find out the answers to their programming questions, culture questions, to the size of their whiteboards.

Like dude said, when the mortgage is on the line

I’m finding out more and more how often folks game the system man.

Im sure these dudes know how to solve real algorithmic issues but damn

 

[TheAnointedOne]

how about

Self-Contained Application Packaging

Self-contained application packages have the following drawbacks:

• "Download and run" user experience
  
  Unlike web deployment, the user experience is not about "launch the application from the web." It is more one of "download, install, and run" process, in which the user might need to go through additional steps to get the application launched. For example, the user might have to accept a browser or operating system security dialog, or find and launch the application installer from the download folder.
  
  
• Larger download size
  
  In general, the size of self-contained application packages is larger than the size of a standalone application, because a private copy of the JRE is included.
  
  
• Package per target platform
  
  Self-contained application packages are platform-specific and can only be produced for the same system on which you build. To deliver self-contained application packages on Windows, Linux, and OS X, you must build your project on all three platforms.
  
  
• Application updates are the responsibility of developer
  
  Web-deployed Java applications automatically download application updates from the web as soon as they are available. The Java Autoupdate mechanism takes care of updating the JRE to the latest secure version several times every year. Self-contained applications do not have built-in support for automatic updates.
  

I guess building your app normally (and requiring your audience to have the JRE installed) is the way to go. This other shyt seems like too much trouble.

 

[Uno Venova]

Journey starts this week, so far I've been reading Head First HTML&CSS, Started the Odin Project and signed up for beginner workshops at Codesmith. I'll see how I feel in two weeks if I can really grasp and do this shyt.

 

[null]

Journey starts this week, so far I've been reading Head First HTML&CSS, Started the Odin Project and signed up for beginner workshops at Codesmith. I'll see how I feel in two weeks if I can really grasp and do this shyt.

watch the scishow comp science watchlist on youtube .

for background.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Journey starts this week, so far I've been reading Head First HTML&CSS, Started the Odin Project and signed up for beginner workshops at Codesmith. I'll see how I feel in two weeks if I can really grasp and do this shyt.

I'm doing The Odin project right now.

Let me know if you need a "study buddy"