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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: SeekAndFind
How about documentation?
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
Tech documentors are HUGELY in demand, yes.
And if you are bilingual, you’d get top pay.
To: SeekAndFind
They shouldn’t promote this, now Obama is going to try to import foreign computer programmers.
To: SeekAndFind
I was thinking more along the lines of getting programmers to actually document their code with decent comments....
/johnny
To: SeekAndFind
When I’m looking for new team members, I couldn’t give a flying fig for their “skill sets”. I want to know how they think and how they can learn. You can teach skills, you can’t teach talent (at least, not as much).
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:25:53 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: JRandomFreeper
...getting programmers to actually document their code with decent comments.... That's just wrong.
To: JRandomFreeper
But if I did that, then they could hire someone else to fix my code later. Not in my best interest :)
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:27:40 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Still Thinking; ...
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:28:11 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: SeekAndFind
I used to be pretty good at fixing VCR’s....
Any jobs available for that?
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:28:41 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: JRandomFreeper
How about documentation?/* Wachu talkin bout, Willis? */
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:29:19 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: Billthedrill
I've seen the comment "You wouldn't understand this" next to a complex regex line. In production code.
/johnny
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:30:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Jeff Chandler
The story of Mel, the programmer, lives on....
/johnny
To: SeekAndFind
I are a software enginner. Started off with FORTRAN-77 and assembler on a DEC PDP 11/24. Nowadays using DOTNet C# on PCs for testing hardware. Lives been good to me so-far.
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:32:50 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:34:23 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: JRandomFreeper
C’mon Johnny!
REAL programmers don’t test or document.
That’s for newbs.
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:34:35 AM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: Billthedrill
Indecent comments make the job fun.
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:34:58 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
To: Billthedrill
I worked with a guy that documented his code with a lot of verbiage. Even through in some obscenities to see if anyone even reads the comments. :)
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:35:23 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: JRandomFreeper
I've seen the comment "You wouldn't understand this" next to a complex regex line. In production code. If you've seen the comment: "Explanation more complicated than the code itself" you've view sourced my code and realized the reason programmers make minimal notations.
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posted on
07/02/2014 9:35:37 AM PDT
by
Henchster
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