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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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How Do I Determine the Value of a Technical book?
I'm interested in finding more books like The Pragmatic Programmer. Rather than the run of the mill, technology-specific books that are out of date by the time they go to press. Can you provide advice ...
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What to look for in a training course
My development team is looking to expand into some new areas that we don't currently have direct skills for. We're trying to evaluate the available training courses, but there's not much depth of ...
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Teaching myself, as a physicist, to become a better programmer
I've always liked physics, and I've always liked coding, so when I got the offer for a PhD position doing numerical physics (details are not relevant, it's mostly parallel programming for a cluster) ...
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How do you break out of the role of a code maintainer? [closed]
In my last three jobs, I was a code maintainer. In all three cases, I was hired after the majority of the code for the project was already written.
I'm a self taught programmer. Before I ever started ...
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Does teaching programming make you a better programmer
I consider myself an intermediate Python programmer and have been offered an opportunity to be a trainer for a beginner Python programming class.
I was wondering if this would really widen my ...
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How can we improve overall Programmer Education & Training?
Last week, I was just viewing this amazing interview by Kevin Rose of Phillip Rosedale, of Second Life.
And they had an amazing discussion about how to find, hire and identify good programmer's, and ...
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How should I evaluate a training class?
My company is giving us the possibility to sign up for some offsite training classes on Design Patterns.
Browsing through the brochures, I'm already feeling bored (and somewhat repelled by the ...
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What certified/standardised courses have you completed and how would you rate them?
What certified or standardised professional programming courses have you completed? (not school/college/university)
How would you rate them in terms of how much their content has helped you to do ...
