I mean tired of this whole ‘coding is for anyone’, ‘everyone should learn how to code’ mantra?
I enjoy being a regular SE. I love having a simple, unassuming, position where I just put in my 9 to 5 monday through friday fixing shit or adding simple brain-dead features, while listening to some Pandora.
I joined a company a few months ago as a remote dev. This is what has transpired since then:
After ~50-200 applications, with ~15 cover letters, 4 interviews, I just received my first offer! The compensation is average for a junior software dev in Canada, but I'm relieved I get to make the next step after being in school forever.
Hey guys new grad here. I started my new job almost a month ago now, and I keep feeling like I’m not working enough.
I just don't understand when people say they are working 8-9 hours a day because I never worked that much. I have been at 3 companies, everytime I thought the next company would be hectic. At my first company I worked for 4-5 hours on a normal day, second company for 4 hours a day.
I started at junior .Net backend position 3 months ago.
I have worked for 2 months now as a web developer and it seems that i have lost all the interest of doing side projects anymore.. before job i was so pumped up
Hi everyone, before I get into this, I would like to kindly ask for only helpful and respectful comments. I really feel like I'm at rock bottom, and I truly just need advice on what to do next. I don't know where else to turn.
I’m a 29F and have been working for 5 years mostly on front-end. I joined this team which works full stack and though I’ve been on this team ~6 months, a lot of the concepts relating to the backend are foreign to me still such as database stuff and concurrency.
I'm curious to find out since I tend to only hear about people overcoming Imposter Syndrome, but never about those who were genuine imposters who left the field. What do these people move on to?
Some of the most important courses in Computer Science are: Introduction to Programming: Computer science departments at institutions like Boston University, Virginia Tech, Caltech and others offer some form of courses that introduce students to programming methods and skills.
If you mean you want to be a professional programmer, not necessarily a computer scientist, then take courses that are more problem solving oriented. That would be things like your numerical analysis and modeling classes. If you mean you want to be a computer scientist (. Continue Reading.