Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Pyrexcup]

Back on my leetcode grind. Alot of concepts I struggled with last time around seem more reasonable now
Reading thru DDIA and getting my mind blown every chapter

is the book worth reading

 

[desjardins]

is the book worth reading

I'm only on page 150 (out of 550) but yes imo.
Understanding the formatting, transmission, encoding/decoding of data gives you a deeper understanding of how systems could be constructed
shyt like SOAP seems like complete trash when you better understands it's limitations and other options
Now I can actually articulate why certains parts of our applications uses Kafka and other parts just use Restful APIs
stuff like that is fleshed out in the book

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Back on my leetcode grind. Alot of concepts I struggled with last time around seem more reasonable now
Reading thru DDIA and getting my mind blown every chapter

This is the only book you'll ever need for algorithms: https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/book/Algorithms-JeffE.pdf

full home page with extra shyt: Algorithms by Jeff Erickson


I cant thank Jeff enough

 

[Pyrexcup]

any tips on grinding leetcode? wtf these questions are so hard i grinded codewars level 7 and 8 and was able to at least solve some of them

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

The difficulty of Leet Code questions seems to fluctuate within the levels. They've had some "easy" questions really kick my ass because you need to apply a$$hole's Third Theorem (because everyone fukking knows that) and needed to have seen the question before to arrive at the answer. I would say don't feel like it's cheating to look at the solution if you get stumped. Chances are you were probably making good headway towards a correct answer anyway.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

any tips on grinding leetcode? wtf these questions are so hard i grinded codewars level 7 and 8 and was able to at least solve some of them

Read the textbook i posted above front to back and try to understand it. All the leetcode problems apply one or two algorithms described there. Some other obscure algorithms you pick up along the way via practice and seeing how others solved them.

 

[Mike809]

So I mentioned before how I doing my capstone project now that I'm in my last semester . I decided to go with a social platform cater to people that love movies. So a person will be able to register / login .. rate movies.. make posts..make a watch list or any other sort of list and other features depending how much time I have left after finishing the basic features.

It sounds kind of simple in paper but I've already had to learn a lot along the way like spring security (I'm using Java as backend / angular front-end) and jwt(json web token).

Thankfully , I have until December 13th to finish and I been making progress each day.

 

[Mike809]

any tips on grinding leetcode? wtf these questions are so hard i grinded codewars level 7 and 8 and was able to at least solve some of them

Learn your data structures if you haven't yet . A leet code question about palindrome could give you a hard time if you dont known about stacks.

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Finally got this eks pipeline up and running. Using AWS Gov Cloud is a different beast

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

do any of yall use blue-light computer glasses? If so how did you find them?

 

[Rozay Oro]

do any of yall use blue-light computer glasses? If so how did you find them?

zenni

 

[Rozay Oro]

Started a new software engineer position at the beginning of the month and imposter syndrome is kicking my ass brehs. This framework is a fukking bear and some of my coworkers are literal geniuses with PHDs in computer science, digital signal processing, and physics.

shyt is fukking with my self esteem heavy. I know this is common in the software development field but if anyone has an advice in dealing with imposter syndrome as a new employee feel free to drop some gems. My last job was cake compared to this.

The best way I've been dealing with it so far is waking up everyday and committing myself mentally that I'm going to come home with new knowledge.

Bro I'm not where you are yet but imma say this...

If you wasn't supposed to be there, you wouldn't be there. You said it yourself. You're working with literal PhDs. They had to have a PhD to get there. You got there without all that, so what does that say about you?

The way I see it is... it aint you working with PhDs. It's PhDs working with you. They gotta be feeling some kinda way that they had to go to school for 15 years to get this job and you had enough raw talent to come in there and get the job without all the letters behind your name.

Never forget that.

Acula u that nikka. I’m 26 broke af. fukk those cacs my nikka

 

[Rozay Oro]

Don’t give up brehs

Repost!

 

[Rozay Oro]

Are Coding/programming jobs in high demand?

Do I NEED to go to a school to get a well paying job?


How long does it take to learn enough for a entry position?


I’m a 27 year old that’s trying to learn a actual skill and start a career this year. I don’t know where to even start. Any brehs can help?

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

These JavaScript advanced arrays are kicking my butt this weekend.