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The Tech Skills and Courses Google Recommends for Software Engineers
Life Hacker ^ | 11/18/2014 | Melanie Pinola

Posted on 11/22/2014 12:35:34 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

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To: Cementjungle

I dropped turbo c and went to MS C. Turbo C debugger was the bomb in the 80’s.

I just wish C# had the change and go when it first came out. I’m experimenting with swift right now. It looks promising but I don’t know if I want to spend the time.

For me a language takes a year to master.


21 posted on 11/22/2014 1:54:59 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: FreeReign

Admin sucks. 3 or 4 Developers with a dedicated admin person assigned to them is probably optimal. Really good developers never want to quit, just do more.


22 posted on 11/22/2014 1:57:21 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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bookmark


23 posted on 11/22/2014 2:10:44 PM PST by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Do you need all this to create an app and become a millionaire? : )


24 posted on 11/22/2014 2:21:01 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

How to build an app
http://www.creativebloq.com/app-design/how-build-app-tutorials-12121473

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/flappy-bird-clones/


25 posted on 11/22/2014 2:25:03 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

“Do you need all this to create an app and become a millionaire?”

Great question. I think the best answer to this question is found in the Leah Busque description of how TaskRabbit came to be. Go to ecorner.stanford.edu and watch it—well worth the time and a video I discuss with many people when the subject of becoming a millionaire seems appropriate to discuss.


26 posted on 11/22/2014 2:31:00 PM PST by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: Kid Shelleen
What about basic skills like requirements gathering, project and time management?

Learning lots of computer science theory is really only going to make you a better coder. If you want to be a software engineer you're going to have to interact with humans.

27 posted on 11/22/2014 2:38:56 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Kid Shelleen

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 community edition is free now.


28 posted on 11/22/2014 2:55:04 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Kid Shelleen

BM


29 posted on 11/22/2014 3:15:07 PM PST by CommieCutter
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To: Kid Shelleen; ShadowAce

Tech Ping worthy, ShadowAce?


30 posted on 11/22/2014 3:15:35 PM PST by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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To: Mr. K

The world outside Windows is getting bigger all the time. Linux dominates servers and embedded devices (Android). The need for *good* C++/Java developers is very high because of this.

I’ve not done any programming under Windows for 15 years.


31 posted on 11/22/2014 3:31:35 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Kid Shelleen; rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; ...

32 posted on 11/22/2014 5:10:44 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Cementjungle

still have turbo c. did genetic algorithm research in turbo c.


33 posted on 11/22/2014 5:51:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

As an infrastructure architect dealing primarily with Windows systems, I can tell you the #1 skill required by software engineers is communication. Most hardcore coders have horrid interpersonal skills and couldn’t document a game of Chutes and Ladders.


34 posted on 11/22/2014 6:14:45 PM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: MUDDOG
My dice throwing program in BASIC on my MSDOS 8086 computer was nice and simple, using the random number generator.

Rolling Dice in Linux with Bash:

#!/usr/bin/bash
DIE1=$(( ( RANDOM % 6 )  + 1 ))
DIE2=$(( ( RANDOM % 6 )  + 1 ))
echo -n "Your roll is ${DIE1} and ${DIE2} "
echo -n "and your total is "
echo ${DIE1}+${DIE2} | bc

$ rolldice
Your roll is 2 and 4 and your total is 6
$ rolldice
Your roll is 6 and 4 and your total is 10
$ rolldice
Your roll is 1 and 2 and your total is 3
 

 

35 posted on 11/22/2014 8:36:54 PM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: zeugma
Nice!

I don't think I have Linux though.

36 posted on 11/22/2014 8:44:38 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Kid Shelleen; All

Some good comments.

I started programming with basic-plus, then fortran, COBOL,APL,and C, before moving into project mgmt and mgmt.

Still finding a tremendous need for data modeling, SQL, and Excel macros...


37 posted on 11/23/2014 9:12:00 PM PST by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the party of Amnesty, Abortion, and Adolescence)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Technology Bump


38 posted on 11/24/2014 10:12:27 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: rarestia

I have a dgree in computer science, but been a SAHM for 20 years. I had a pet peeve about people that didn’t document code. The funny thing is that they usuallty wrote spaghetti code that was hard to debug.

My husband was one of the best engineers I ever worked with. He knew all sorts of tricks to speed up code or to minimize it, but he always put in comments about what was going on. I learned a lot just reading his code.


39 posted on 11/24/2014 4:12:53 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: luckystarmom

I studied computer science for 2 years before switch my major to English. I was an attentive student, but the higher abstract maths were impossible for me to understand. Despite my code often not working properly or efficiently, my professors would always complement me on my pseudo-code and in-line documentation. It always came down to forgetting a damn semicolon somewhere!


40 posted on 11/25/2014 4:22:57 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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