i need an internship/entry level gig. willing to work anywhere that isn't landlocked or a dull city. can basically start immediately. someone help please
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Computer Science is terrible, get a real degree.
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baxate posted:Computer Science is terrible, get a real degree. it's 2012 buddy, there are no real degrees
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Sulk posted:i need an internship/entry level gig. willing to work anywhere that isn't landlocked or a dull city. can basically start immediately. someone help please
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To expand onthis - again thanks play poker - playbook -??what. If you have submitted code as part of a job application then you will need to talk about it . Make sure you can. Do not submit code that was written by anyone else. You will need to tell the interviewer which part you enjoyed coding and which you didn't. Where were the problems and how did you overcome them. The interviewer will be looking for the moment when you light up and become enthusiastic because you overcame a hard problem with an elegant solution, and you enjoy talking about it. Be proud of your code and make sure the interviewer knows why you are proud of your work. This is not hard for a good coder. This is just normal. If you can't do this then just go and make Web pages. Cheers
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Dr. Honked posted:Code doesn't need to launch, it just needs to be good. If you are embarrassed by your code then it's not good enough. Your portfolio needs to contain code that you are proud of. That you can talk enthusiastically about. Thanks playbook for fucing with my sentence structure cheers i need more code, i guess. actually went thru my github and deleted some repos with lovely old code in them, tried to pare down to good stuff or stuff that at least shows a range vOv
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Anal Tributary posted:what defines something decent in a github, anyways? i've been asked for portfolios and never know what to say because none of the dev stuff i've done ever ends up launching, but i have some github repos with decent code in them. Examples that would probably go over well:
You can stack these up as much as you want. Add some variety and elaboration. Again, nobody's expecting much out of an intern. The goal is to demonstrate basic competency at and familiarity with programming. Also, study up on algorithms. I know this is like the most generic common advise ever, but that's because it's true. Some ridiculous percentage of pre-screened applicants are unable to create even a basic insertion sort, or use a prefix tree to implement a spell checker. You go in there and be the only guy in the room who can explain the tradeoffs between a map and a hash table, and you'll be a shoe-in.
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Janin posted:Also, study up on algorithms. I know this is like the most generic common advise ever, but that's because it's true. Some ridiculous percentage of pre-screened applicants are unable to create even a basic insertion sort, or use a prefix tree to implement a spell checker. You go in there and be the only guy in the room who can explain the tradeoffs between a map and a hash table, and you'll be a shoe-in. yeah i don't know any of these things this is why i wasn't applying to internships this summer. guess my focus should be self-teaching that kinda stuff.
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is there a book on algorithms/data structures which is actually comprehensible without needing to know a shitload of math
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Sulk posted:is there a book on algorithms/data structures which is actually comprehensible without needing to know a shitload of math lol
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Honestly, you probably have a good shot at getting a job with the University IT department. They like to hire students. I just did an interview for a PHP/MySQL job at my university today. I put some of my github projects on my resume, and some of the patches I've submitted to open source projects which they really liked. That's another thing you can do. Just find an open source project you like and browse through their bug tracker and find something that looks easy to fix, and fix it.
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Sulk posted:is there a book on algorithms/data structures which is actually comprehensible without needing to know a shitload of math
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baxate posted:That's another thing you can do. Just find an open source project you like and browse through their bug tracker and find something that looks easy to fix, and fix it. yeah, i'm going to probably be contributing some to emberjs fairly soon. i'm basically just trying to keep productive - keeping a public (shame)log of all of my coding for motivation to not, like, skip any more than weekend
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Sulk posted:is there a book on algorithms/data structures which is actually comprehensible without needing to know a shitload of math Learn math Dot product. Cross product. Quaternions. What is the identity matrix and what does it do. How to make a transform matrix Learn or ducking kill your ducking self LOL playnook HAHA IT AUTOCORRECT IN LAYNOOK FUCM WTF
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I'm dying h re this thing is off da railz
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Sulk posted:is there a book on algorithms/data structures which is actually comprehensible without needing to know a shitload of math
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newreply.php posted:do java/c# if you want easy + money objc is probably one of the easier languages out there, mostly cause of the tools backing it up i'm not sure how you can consider ios app development hard
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What McCain said if you don't want to get into games or you want to get into algorithms without math Correction markov Cain chomp gently caress this I'm out Autocorrect put gently caress in all caps instead of duck, maybe we are getting somewhere
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Dr. Honked posted:What McCain said if you don't want to get into games or you want to get into algorithms without math
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Janin posted:Since you're a sophomore, nobody expects you to have done anything useful anyway. Come up with a few small projects suiting whatever area of software development you want to go into. dude, anal, i just did internship interviews at two schools, and collected resumes the majority of undergrad candidates have loving nothing on their resume. some have maybe one team project listed, or just a splattering of course names no one really cares about, but most are like "i took two coding classes i guess?" we are literally giving an offer to one of them who admitted to "only starting programming 5 months ago, and only IOS apps" (not my project, but someone else in a related group)
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I like javascript and c#, regular java is ok. python is great and everything I guess but my one true love will always be C.
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rotor posted:I like javascript and c#, regular java is ok. python is great and everything I guess but my one true love will always be C. basically its like they made the best all-around language and everything since that is just minmaxing for whatever problem you have right now
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c is splendiferous
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lua
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ahhh spiders posted:why Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Apr 26, 2012 |
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THC posted:learning it after years of java and I hate it. its yucky i did the exact same thing basically and it's not that hard. are you using the stanford itunes u course
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THC posted:learning it after years of java and I hate it. its yucky. I thought it would be more like C but its not its got a bunch of weird poo poo just use the underlying C functions then if it bothers you that much. ObjC is like a tiny little layer on top of C.
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ahhh spiders posted:are you using the stanford itunes u course no... should I
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THC posted:no... should I yeah, it's really good. i think it's CS193p
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multigl posted:just use the underlying C functions then if it bothers you that much. ObjC is like a tiny little layer on top of C. that's dumb
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 06:28 |
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Perl. that's all i know. well i can write arduino programs too but so can a late period in Mississippi
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arduino uses straight c
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i've actually compiled and run templated c++ code on arduino lol
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 06:36 |
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as soon as i get newjob im gonna write a script to telnet into every walmart store in the country and run this particular script that updates our switch/port listings how high you guys reckon i can take fork()
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Jonny 290 posted:as soon as i get newjob im gonna write a script to telnet into every walmart store in the country and run this particular script that updates our switch/port listings system-dependent
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Jonny 290 posted:as soon as i get newjob im gonna write a script to telnet into every walmart store in the country and run this particular script that updates our switch/port listings
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obv lol i think this week's store count is 9034 i dont think that would go well on this: code:
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how many briberies is that equal to
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 07:11 |
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idk but its hilarious how they're throwing walmex under the bus with OH MAN WE DIDNT KNOW ABOUT ANY OF THIS
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~ effort poste ~ I love all the people that claim that js is suitable for large scale application development because there are libraries to do X, Y or Z. Never mind that most of them still suck for whatever reason (e.g. lacking or lovely documentation) so good luck picking the least bad out of the herd of contenders and are all generally developed by ADHD hipsters who will drop maintenance at the drop of a PBR: all of them can only do so much to hide the underlying language from you which is filled to the brim with weird behavior (if you think otherwise, you haven't used js very long... a small appetizer of crazy here: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat). When somebody has to write a book specifically calling out which parts of your language are good, and it becomes a best-seller, that might be a hint that there's a big steaming pile of badness in your language too. It's not like somebody has had to write "C: The Good Parts." The ultimate irony here is that none of the people jumping up and down about how awesome server-side js is have even an ounce of historical knowledge about their favorite best-ever-zomg-so-awesome-unicorns-and-puppies!!!! language. Javascript on the server-side was tried in the 1990s and was an utter failure (trivia quiz: without using Google, what servers even supported this?). It sucked for writing big apps then, it sucks for writing big apps now, and I'm seriously afraid that a generation of people will grow up thinking that JS is a good idea and waste both their lives and the time of the wiser heads that have to maintain their poo poo later on. I'm glad that you like writing performant server-side code, good on you, but realize that node is only (sort of, in some situations) fast because it embodies a particular design pattern, not because it happens to be javascript. You can write fast evented code in other languages that aren't formless blobs of over-hyped poo (and also note that event handling isn't the only way to skin a cat here). JS is only tolerable in one place, and that's in the browser to drive event handlers and such for interactive things. That's only true because there aren't any other options (except vbs, lol). I mean don't get me wrong, I sympathize with liking a language that's totally unsuitable for programming in the large. I liked perl for a long time. But hell is other people's perl code. Say what you will about Java, it puts a hard upper limit on how completely insane you can be (sure there's a FactoryFactoryFactory but that code is still easier to read than somebody who thought it would be cool to write the monthly payroll cron job as one ten thousand character regexp or whatever the gently caress cat-on-keyboard spew you can find in the worst perl codebases). Like so many things, building solid systems requires picking the right tools for the job to hand, and JS is usually not the right tool. Much as you can use a screwdriver as a prybar though, people keep trying to do the wrong thing because they're too ignorant or lazy to reach for the right tools and just like in carpentry will end up hurting themselves or others. I... guess I'm just about javascript. Sorry guys, as you were. I hear the bay area is neat?
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