Questions on self-guided improvement. Because no one cares as much about you as you do.
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Migration to embedded systems
My company has so far been developing a medical device, which is connected via USB to a desktop system (running x64 Windows 7) to run the image analysis and do everything GUI related.
I am familiar ...
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Contributing to an open source project [closed]
I am learning how to program,specifically for android. I know basic java, i want to contribute to this project to improve my skills but im not sure where to start https://github.com/ParanoidAndroid ...
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Newcomer to software development - how to close my gaps? [closed]
I used to study business informatics but found, after an internship, a job as software developer (Ruby on Rails).
My problem is that I am, compared to most of my colleges who directly studied ...
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3answers
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What tools are you using to improve your professional effectiveness? [closed]
I have just finished a very nasty Web (JQuery/PHP) project where absolutely all went wrong: the client was constantly changing the requirements, and as a result there was a constant lack of time which ...
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What skills are essential for professional programming that are not commonly taught in schools?
I am a first year computer science major. I went to a job fair, handed out resumes, much to my surprise I got an interview and eventually an internship as a developer. I explained to the interviewer ...
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2answers
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Do all programmers going through a steep learning curve? [duplicate]
I don't have many peers who work as a programmer or at least who are social enough to share some parts of their precious knowledge, so I have little to none to compare with.
I tend to learn new ...
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Why we coudnt make it? [closed]
It's been 3 years we are using c
We studied C in our graduation, Now i am doing my post graduation in CS at one of the reputed college.
In our graduation we studied structures, pointers, simple ...
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1answer
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Online courses focussed on learning LISP for beginners? [closed]
I'm looking for an online course that I can use to learn programming using Lisp (especially Scheme), from scratch. I didn't find anything similar on Coursera/Udacity - the only resource I found was on ...
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5answers
502 views
What to do with a programmer that can't handle priorities? [closed]
One colleague in our team has multiple jobs to do, but he don't focus on the job that is currently the most important. In our team we always discuss the next steps, but he still don't focus on one ...
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3answers
396 views
How do you keep consistent self confidence while coding? [closed]
As the number of bugs in a codebase increases, that number not only decreases the quality of the code, it also affects the mindset of the developers. Developer self-confidence falls when things are ...
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2answers
369 views
How do you know if you're an underpaid developer? [closed]
I have been having a lot of discussions with developers on being paid fairly. I'm curious how do you define being underpaid? And what do you do to fix that problem?
This is the article that caused ...
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1answer
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Academic vs Industry,How to determine my passion? [closed]
I'm a university student in my final year,During these year, I have been involved in alot of software/hardware projects, training programes and management rules in some volunteer areas.
To be honest ...
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2answers
295 views
Programming methodology - best way to level up? [closed]
Ok, so I'm at a point where I think I have my basics down. I'd like to think I'm just starting to become an intermediate dev. So, how do I level up here?
It feels like I have reached my threshold, ...
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4answers
424 views
Hating your own code - for good or bad, how do you deal with it? [closed]
Have you ever had this feeling that your code is bad, the whole project is a mess, and you just want to step off? On your daily job you can explain this feeling away with your coworkers, asshole boss, ...
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0answers
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Value of a compTIA certification? [duplicate]
I am fairly new to coding the most experience i have is a 22 day streak! with code academy. In a few months i will be looking for a job as a programmer with little to no experience. Recently i was ...
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1answer
155 views
Bridging the Gap from Amateur to Hirable [duplicate]
I'm going to ask this question knowing that I risk it being closed for being like some other questions that have been asked in the past. I have read them, I promise. example here: Bridging the gap ...
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3answers
177 views
How do I convince manager to move me from services/support team to development? [closed]
I joined a company a few months ago as a Java developer. I like doing coding and it makes me happy. After my Java training I was put into services/support project. There is no coding in this team.
...
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0answers
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Educating Teams - Software Craftsmanship and Best Practices [closed]
I'm part of a team that's responsible for trying to spread better coding practices to other teams. These ideas are things like software craftsmanship, professionalism, learning new technology, ...
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6answers
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What can a technically proficient senior software developer study to keep improving
Say you have been programming for over 10 years. You know many languages, with few of those at very detailed level. You have been designing architecture for solutions, worked on and delivered larger ...
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2answers
396 views
Is there a device still being sold that requires efficient programming? What is it? [closed]
Edit: As a lot of you have pointed out, efficient can mean a lot of things. I guess when I say that the device 'requires efficient programming', I mean that the device does not have lots of memory or ...
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1answer
103 views
Documents to use on project development [closed]
I am lost on how to plan the development of a iphone mobile app, when building a specific mobile app for a client, i need to make a questionnaire for that same client and i also need to have a ...
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8answers
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Re-gaining confidence of senior programmer [closed]
My boss found out I'm not as smart as he thought.
An example from my experience:
I'm a junior programmer, and I work in a team of two, my boss (senior programmer) and myself.
I was tasked with ...
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4answers
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How to identify (business) processes for automation?
I recently started at a new company and I am doing basically statistical data analysis as well as data handling (market research). A lot of my tasks were previously done entirely by hand, so I went ...
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7answers
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What should junior developer expect from their senior team lead
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
I work for a small company, in which few people are developers, others are QA/Test and 1 is ...
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2answers
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What to learn and how? [closed]
I am a Java (Web) Developer. Having knowledge about c#, PHP and Ruby. I am getting confused how to keep myself updated with very fast changing the programming language and their implementation.
Like, ...
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0answers
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Programming learning crisis [closed]
I'm 23 and I consider myself to be a programmer. I've programmed for hobby, in college and for the last 2 years I've been working at 2 companies. Definitely the working experience formed my career and ...
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My most cherished dream project seems to resemble a product that already exists. What shall I do? [closed]
I guess this is more of a "comfort seeking" question than legality one.
You see, for the past couple of months I have been brainstorming and developing a product, all by myself. I was planning to ...
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6answers
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What *are* the programming concepts I should master to have a deep understanding of my craft (programming)? [closed]
In order of importance, if its possible to do so and it may not be, what are the most important foundations of knowing how to program. Algorithms, iteration, recursion, etc?
Note that where I put ...
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Does reading code and reading about code help in self -development? [closed]
As my profile will tell you, I am in my second year of a 4-year Software Engineering program.
(Long post, skip to the end for the short version)
First, a little background. I started coding in ...
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5answers
270 views
What do you do to overcome the need to make code perfect? [closed]
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation and I wanted to see what you guys do about this on day-to-day basis. Sorry if this comes off a bit ranty.
As a company founder and the main tech guy, I ...
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1answer
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How do you take into account usability and user requirements for your application?
Our team supports BackOffice application: a mix of WinForm and WPF windows. (about 80 including dialogs). Really a kind of a Swiss Army Knife. It is used by developers, tech writers, security ...
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How to learn to deliver quality software designs when working on a tight deadline? [closed]
I read many books about how to design great software, but I kind of struggle to come up with a good design decisions when it comes to business apps, especially when the timeframe is tough.
In the ...
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Handle complexity in large software projects
I am a lead developer in a larger software projects.
From time to time its getting hard to handle the complexity within this project. E. g.
Have the whole big picture in mind all the time
Keeping ...
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6answers
542 views
Is there benefit to maintain a large project with bad code?
I'm currently maintain a large project with more than 100000 LOC. The code use the MFC as its
framework, in genral, it only has interface part which heavily use the mfc api and a business logic part ...
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4answers
266 views
Should I expect my peers to read or practice on a regular basis? [closed]
I've been debating asking this question for some time. Based several of the comments I read in this question I decided I had to ask.
This feels like I'm stating the obvious, but I believe that ...
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3answers
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Working alone vs with others
Being a student in a small school, there aren't a lot of people (well, there aren't any) that share the same passion or skill of programming that I have.
I have been learning to program myself since ...
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2answers
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A toolset for self improvement and learning [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I’m having trouble learning
I've been working as an IT consultant for 1½ years and I am very passionate about programming. Before that I studied MSc Software Engineering ...
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1answer
417 views
Wide gap in my resume as a Java developer. What are must-have skills required to get hired those days? [closed]
For some legal reasons I haven't worked for anybody for the last 12 years. I am a java web developer or at least I am thinking so. For this period I have been working on my project- some sort of ...
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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
752 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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1answer
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Patterns to refactor common code in multi-platform software
I have a Django application and a PyQt application that share a lot of code. A big chunk of the PyQt application are copied verbatim from the Django application's views. As this is a game, I have ...
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1answer
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Steps to manage a large project [closed]
Software development is an area where parallel development to its fullest form is very difficult to achieve, although you could get reasonably close with the right design. This is especially true for ...
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How much a programmer should read in order to keep himself updated? [closed]
There are lots of technical books available. Below are few links which lists some good books
If you could only have one programming related book on your bookshelf what would it be and why?
What ...
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Is there a 'design pattern' type listing of common algorithms?
Is there a 'design pattern' styled listing of common/popular algorithms anywhere? Specifically, something that has a similar format along the lines of:
Algorithm Name: e.g., Quick Sort, Bubble Sort, ...
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2answers
787 views
How to start competitive programming? [closed]
I have been practicing coding for a while, but the problem is that it takes me a lot of time to write a solution for the problems. I want to ask if competitive programming can help me in improving ...
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is there any elegant way to analyze an engineer's process?
Plenty of sentiment exists that measuring commits is inappropriate.
Has any study been done that tries to draw in more sources than commits - such as:
browsing patterns
IDE work (pre-commit)
idle ...
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563 views
How to learn programming from very basic level to advanced level? [closed]
I know many programming languages ,skills and concepts in very basic, such as PHP, Java, Object-oriented technology.
Using PHP, I can build a simple website with CRUD, login function.
Using Java, I ...
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2answers
403 views
Participate in open source project [closed]
Currently, I am through a very creative phase as a developer. I think it's a good time to contribute to an open source project. Not as "permanent" developer to a project but in a "help wanted" manner ...
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6answers
587 views
Would a professional, self taught programmer benefit from reading an algorithms book? [closed]
I'm a 100% self taught, professional programmer (I've worked at a few web startups and made a few independent games). I've read quite a few of the "essential" books (Clean Code, The Pragmatic ...
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How do I make the correct career decision in regards to product manager/QA vs programmer? [closed]
I'm curious about how to approach the issue of whether I should focus on programming or on QA/testing/product management. I know that the latter seems like a broad category( if so, think of it as ...
