Many junior developers dream of making it at one of the larger tech companies, but, to be honest with you, getting your first job is never easy. It is, in fact, one of the hardest things in your life and you need to put your best effort to find a job in your dream company. » Hacker Noon | hackernoon.com
In a previous post, I put together a list of 10 questions for DevOps team managers to use as a point of reference when interviewing potential DevOps engineers. Each question included an in-depth explanation and follow-up questions, so in case you were, or are now, a candidate, that list could help you prepare for interviews. » Logz.io | logz.io
Having a solid foundation in Computer Science is important to become a successful Software Engineer. This guide is a suggested path for university students to develop their technical skills academically and non-academically through self paced hands-on learning. You may use this guide to determine courses to take, but please make sure you are taking courses required for your major in order to graduate. The online resources provided in this guide are not meant to replace courses available at your university. However, they may help supplement your learnings or provide an introduction to a topic. ...
Ever wondered why programmers are known as nightbirds? Why we stay up all night? Because it allows us to get into the zone, it allows us to focus on one thing and not have to worry about being interupted by someone - because they are all asleep. It’s a long stretch of the day where no one is up and no one is calling or trying to talk to us. It’s a great time to program, and think. ...
Quincy Larson was just a ”guy in a suit in an office” and decided he wanted to learn how to code. So he asked around. He started by picking up a bit of Ruby then found himself skimming through other languages like Scala, Clojure and Go. He learned Emacs then Vim and even the Dvorak keyboard layout. He picked up Linux, dabbled in Lisp and coded in Python while living on the command line for more than half a year. ...
Finally, Bradley received an e-mail from 10x, a talent company. 10x was started by two music and entertainment managers, Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, who for the past nineteen years have represented rock stars, including John Mayer and Vanessa Carlton. Recently, in the wake of the digital revolution and the music industry’s implosion, Solomon and Blumberg have begun serving as agents for technologists. 10x claims to represent digital ”rock stars”; the company’s name comes from the idea, well established in the tech world, that the very best programmers are superstars, capable of achieving ten times the productivity of their merely competent colleagues. In HBO’s ”Silicon Valley,” a self-effacing character named Big Head compliments his friend’s coding skills by saying, ”Richard’s a 10xer. I’m, like, barely an xer.” ...
Programming is social, too. Most people think it’s not. With assistance from media portrayals of programmers and sloppy stereotypes of our own, they think most of us would prefer to work alone in the dark. Some do, of course, but even then most programmers I know like to talk shop with other programmers all the time. They like to talk about the places where they are stuck, as well as the places they used to be stuck. War stories are the currency of the programmer community. ...
Se dice que son necesarias 10.000 horas de trabajo de programación para alcanzar el nivel de experto, pero una vez llegado a él, ¿cuál es la evolución? ¿Se mantiene? ¿Continúa mejorando? ¿Retrocede? » Juan Palacio | navegapolis.com
En mi opinión el origen de todos los males que afectan a la profesión del desarrollo de software (no me meto en otras cosas), o mejor dicho del programador (evito eufemismos tipo ”arquitecto”, ”ingeniero software”, ”desarrollador” o similares) es el desprecio a programar, el desprecio de la labor del programador frente a otros tipos de tareas. » Jose María Arranz | saveinformaticos.reeelab.com
See, experience is cheap. All it takes is time. Skill is harder, but really only requires hard work ” a lot of people can get that. But attitude. You either have it, or you don’t. The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They typically started before high school ” sometimes before middle school ” and never looked back. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but .NET. ...