Job assignments, positions and activities that programmers can engage in to learn, improve and perfect skills related to programming.
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What to do when you are not up to the industry standard? [closed]
I have been working with company for 3 years and seems like i am stuck. As i have experience in web development using java jsp servlet & HTML, jquery. I try my best to update my skills by ...
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1answer
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What is an expert? [closed]
When I look for a job, I often come across an employer who needs an expert in, lets say, C#. But I really don't know how someone can consider himself as an expert.
In the case of C#, do you need to ...
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2answers
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How do I Integrate a Former Team Member into the Current Team
Is it possible to re-integrate a former team member into a software project?
We have a product with a looming customer deadline and we don't have enough hours to get it done! We have a former ...
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1answer
216 views
How to communicate inefficiency before it's implemented?
This is a problem I come across pretty often. Basically we are using an application to make art content. Often times this requires writing custom tools for it.
Sometimes you run into parts of the ...
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6answers
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Pair programming when driver and observer have different skill level and experience
I know pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer, reviews each ...
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3answers
318 views
2 Years Work Experience, Should I treat it like im a College Graduate? [closed]
So I just got laid off from a company after 2 years, no fault of my own. It was a large, rather well known company that had been doing cuts for the entire year (almost 75% of our department was cut). ...
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8answers
569 views
As a minor, how can I make programming profitable? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I be “too young” to get a programming job?
I’m 15 and I want to Freelance
I've always loved programming. I started when I was about 8 with making some silly ...
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7answers
634 views
What is the correlation between programming language and experience/skills of their users?
I'm sure there is such a correlation, because
experience and skill leads good programmers to picking languages that are better for them, in which they're more productive, and
working in a language ...
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2answers
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Does the term “Learning Curve” include the knowing of the gotchas? [closed]
When you learn new technology you spend time understanding its concepts and tools.
But when technology meets real life strange and not pleasant things happen.
Reuqirements are often far from ideal and ...
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6answers
754 views
How can I improve my skills while working on actual projects, in the absence of more experienced developers?
I'm the lead developer at a small company, working with C# and ASP.Net. Our team is small, 2-3 people, without much experience in development and design. I don't have the opportunity to learn from ...
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28answers
5k views
Is it possible for a good programmer to have never used version control? [closed]
I am looking for an expert programmer to help solve a difficult situation.
The interviews so far have been surprisingly disappointing. The best candidate so far is a very experienced programmer who ...
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6answers
1k views
Work experience before masters [closed]
I dont know if its the right place to ask such questions:
I have a bachelors degree from an Indian university. I want to pursue a masters in one of the universities in USA. My profile is good enough ...
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9answers
377 views
Experience vs. versatility [closed]
Let's say a .NET programmer works at a company which provides software on demand, not as a product. The programmer works in WPF for a period of time and he/she invests lots of time in it. He/she get ...
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4answers
730 views
Introducing a (new) test method to a team
A couple of months ago I was hired in a new job. (I'm fresh out of my Masters in software engineering)
The company mainly consists of ERP consultants, but I was hired in their fairly small web ...
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6answers
767 views
How can I get more programming experience [closed]
I am going to be a third year computer science student and I have read Head first Java, Head First C, and I am currently reading C++ which is the language that I like the most since it has a good ...
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5answers
440 views
How important are the people I work with? [closed]
I'm a very lucky individual who's managed to push a job I enjoy as a junior developer (I say push as I was hired as a Business Analyst but moved into development by proving I could do the work). I'm ...
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17answers
2k views
What's the best lesson you have learned in your career? [closed]
I think mine is "there's no such thing as a five minute job" - that programmers tend to be overly optimistic about development and that we should really think through a the implications before ...
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3answers
549 views
What shoud I know or should be doing after six years of experience in software development? [closed]
Even after six years of experienece I am still doing the things which I was doing six years ago. Working on the same mundane CRUD stuff. Nothing has been real challenging.
Since I am working in a ...
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6answers
481 views
Is it normal for a software developer to have lots of issues after product went live? [closed]
In recent months, our product (which went live probably 9 months ago) experience an increase in the number of users using it. We faced lots of queries, problems, and complaints from users. Sadly, it ...
2
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1answer
351 views
Do I have to change my company to make sure I'm good enough? [closed]
I have been working as a developer since my fourth year of university until now. I'm getting my master's degree next year (in math modeling). I've worked for the same company all the time, first on ...
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13answers
4k views
Is it worth to learn Experimental Languages?
I'm a young programmer who desires to work in the field someday as a programmer. I know Java, VB.NET and C#. I want to learn a new language (as I programmer, I know that it is valuable to extend ...
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0answers
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is it necessary to get hands on experience on multiple Technologies? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I focus on being deep or broad
is it necessary to get hands on experience on multiple programming languages / Technologies rather to work on a single technology / ...
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6answers
794 views
Excellent knowledge of C++ [closed]
I recently saw a recruiting page for a software company where one of the requirements was "Excellent knowledge of C++."
Now, I know this somehow implies as expert knowledge of C++, but where exactly ...
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5answers
727 views
How to gain experience? [closed]
This is a problem that I think many people will find very common and some guidance from the expert users around here will be appreciated.
Background
Basically I'm a junior web developer in a team of ...
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4answers
2k views
How to gain Professional Experience in Java/Java EE Development [closed]
I have been seeing opportunities go past me for just 1 reason: not having professional industry experience. I say to many employers that I'm capable of doing the job and show them the work I've done ...
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1answer
190 views
Attending my first software conference - any tips before I go? [closed]
My nice employer allowed me to visit a software conference in June (International PHP Conference, for those who care).
Wanting to make the most of it, I would ask the more experienced conference ...
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1answer
167 views
What is the best way to maintain our programming experiences? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how do you remember programming related stuff?
During my work experiences, I always met many kind of blocking problems with different technologies. When I remember the ...
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1answer
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Am I experienced enough to learn and develop immediately using Ruby on Rails?
General Question
I understand that discussions revolving around questions of this form run the risk of becoming too specific to help others. So, perhaps a better, general question would be:
What ...
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5answers
778 views
Does using a PHP framework count as experience using PHP to a company that doesn't use that framework?
I've started working at a company that uses the Yii PHP framework. I'm mostly using Yii but also some frontend stuff like jQuery and Ajax.
What I'm worried about is limiting my skill set to a ...
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1answer
82 views
Best course of action to take? [closed]
I know this is hardly the place for a question like this, but I'm utterly lost and have no one else to ask.
In the summer of last year, I started learning web development and programming, and have ...
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2answers
798 views
Can any programmer have 4-5 years of experience on Android in March, 2012? [closed]
Today I was reading a job circular that came into our internal yahoo group. It stated
Android developer needed with 4-5 years of experience.
I am not a developer with that amount of experience. I ...
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2answers
161 views
Programming IDEs feature to add a forgotten open parentheses?
I very often find myself in situations where I should have opened a parentheses, but forgot and end up furiously tapping the left arrow key to get to the spot I should have put it, and doing the same ...
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3answers
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Getting to the big leagues & managing time as a novice game developer?
I'm a 23-year-old novice game developer who just got his first job in the industry a year ago. Unlike most programmers I know, I started programming pretty late, during my second year in college, and ...
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8answers
767 views
How much experience on average should a Sr. developer have to be competent with a framework or library? [closed]
If you are a Senior developer with say 8+ years experience, how much time spent doing programming is reasonable for competency on average? Specifically working with some library or framework ...
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469 views
Certifications needed to get an interview with no experience and no degree. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are certifications worth it?
Given that I have no commercial experience to speak of -- and no undergraduate degree -- how can I best demonstrate my programming ability ...
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7answers
2k views
Resume dilemma for professional job
On my resume, I list myself as having "7 years of hands-on experience programming in C".
To clarify, I am a self-taught C programmer with some college courses thrown in the mix. I've worked on some ...
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7answers
499 views
Does using new techniques hurt productivity?
It seems that as experience with the specific set of tools you have to work with grows, the incentive to try out new things weakens.
When I was new at this programming job, trying out new things, ...
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13answers
4k views
When should I stop programming / coding? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How old is “too old”?
I often hear from my senior colleagues and other peers that being passionate about programming is ok but at certain experience/age one ...
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5answers
501 views
How does a fresher with a clean slate turn into a good programmer? [closed]
As a graduate fresh out of college with a clean slate, how can one go about being a good programmer who writes good maintainable code? How does one learn good coding practices and apply them? Can one ...
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8answers
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Can you share an explanation or experience that gave you clarity about how to use SQL SELECTS?
I have been programming for a long time, like 13 years (only professionally for about 4). I've become familiar with things like QBasic, Visual Basic, C#, .NET, Java, C, C++, Javascript, JQuery, etc. I ...
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11answers
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What to choose: freeware, shareware or payware?
A few years ago I've developed a program that has a steady group of users. It became quite popular and now we have close to two million downloads on Download.com.
At first I provided the application ...
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4answers
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How do you estimate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to respond when you are asked for an estimate?
What are the estimation methods you use in real world projects and found it to be useful. I know there will be lot of ...
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4answers
1k views
Backtrack My “Education”
A while ago, I decided to start programming. I really, just jumped into a language (Perl) and went from there. What I regret is that I just jumped in:
I didn't learn the basics (if you would call ...
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4answers
878 views
I'm so jealous of middle-aged developers. Are we unlucky? [closed]
First of all, I couldn't decide the right words for title after reading How old is "too old"? question. I still can't decide with old, middle-aged, expert or professional.
As you know, ...
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1answer
494 views
Any cool warmup exercises to get the brain going at work? [closed]
Sometimes, even after a full nights sleep, I still feel like i'm not connecting all of the dots when I get to work until mid morning or lunch. However it would be nice if I could have my project's ...
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7answers
368 views
What does long-term freelancing say about a developer's experience?
I have been interviewing candidates lately for a developer position requiring 10+ years experience and have come across a couple of CVs that I am not sure how to understand: I have interviewed a few ...
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9answers
752 views
Work experience instead of education?
I wanted to name this topic as "Education vs. Experience", but this topic already exists. I've read that discussion and though what I'd like to ask is related with that topic, the question is quite ...
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5answers
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Where to Start When Making a Web Application on Your Own
I've been assigned an in-house web application that is basically an Employee and Project Management System.
I'm getting confused as to where I should really start with this assignment (I mean I'm my ...
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3answers
332 views
Where do I learn most - by going to industry or pursuing a doctorate degree?
I enjoy learning new things, and thus I want to pursue a career where I can continue to do so. I'm currently doing my Master's thesis and will finish my degree beginning of next year. After that I'm ...
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5answers
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Creating a New Scripting Language For the Learning Experience?
Is creating a scripting language for my own personal learning experience worth it?
The reason I ask is that there are so many programming languages available already, I know mine will never have any ...
