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The 10 Most In-Demand Software Skills
CIO Insight ^ | 07/02/2014 | By Karen A. Frenkel

Posted on 07/02/2014 9:19:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The current job market has been very good for software developers, especially those with experience in several programming languages. The unemployment rate for software developers was 2.8 percent in Q1 of 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a notable drop from the 5 percent unemployment rate in Q2 of 2009, the quarter when the economic recession ended, and 5.5 percent in Q1 2010. This quarter's report by Dice.com reveals the most-requested skills and platforms, and notes that those with expertise in clusters of language skills are in demand. Furthermore, the Dice report looks at what skills may be needed during the next decade as wearable technologies, the Internet of Things, and robotics and drones increasingly play a larger role. For a copy of the report, click here.














TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: computers; demand; employment; it; jobs; skills; software
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To: olepap
comments are fine until the code and the comments diverge, which they always will...

Good point. Comments are also fine until you're given one hour to complete a four hour task.
41 posted on 07/02/2014 10:55:15 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: SeekAndFind

What, no COBOL?


42 posted on 07/02/2014 11:53:18 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Scrambler Bob

“Fix code later???”

Well, update or change I mean. If nobody else can figure out my code, they have to call me back and pay me to do it, or pay someone else a bunch more money to redo it from scratch. Why should I leave a cheat sheet for my competition?

If they want to pay me extra for documentation, then maybe I’d do it. Otherwise, if they pay for the code, they get the code, not code + comments.

Now, I don’t do stuff like make the code intentionally obscure like the fellow you mentioned. I have just found the average skill level programmers usually have trouble figuring out what I am doing unless I explain it to them.


43 posted on 07/02/2014 1:05:58 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: JRandomFreeper

If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.


44 posted on 07/03/2014 10:35:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I've seen the comment "Nobody here or at knows what this statement does, but if it's changed, the display quits working" in aircraft display software.
45 posted on 07/03/2014 10:37:48 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I've seen the comment "You wouldn't understand this" next to a complex regex line. In production code. /johnny

Well, at least they were *honest*...

Cheers!

46 posted on 07/04/2014 7:06:17 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Darteaus94025; JRandomFreeper

Cheers!

47 posted on 07/04/2014 2:35:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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