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Programming - Advice?
Curious what the best avenue is to enter this field. Are there many freelance opportunities? Independent contracting? Remote opportunities? What sort of education is necessary? What sort is suggested? What are most popular languages? Which are most useful? Which most needed? What sort of drawbacks are there?
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I'm where you are. Someone I work with (not directly) gave me the same advice I read in a C# and C++ book. Just program. Explore what you can do with it and don't give up.
Books are books, but you need to program in order to train your mind to think like a programmer. It's a way of thought, simply put. Languages don't matter until later. I personally started with Basic back in the 80s.
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my X point plan for success in the field: read a c# book, play a lot of videogames so you can type fast and look semicompetent, lie on your resume, lie in interviews, use performance-enhancing drugs for high pressure social situations, learn jedi mind tricks, have visible abs, learn statistics and use them to write reports so you can suck up to the execs, figure out the psychology of ppl who can remove technical responsibilities while increasing your pay and abuse it, convince everyone to love you
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Haynar is a great person to engage! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
HAYNAR! (On page 25 of the member list, under H)
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Last edited by dafier; 02-07-2017 at 11:47 AM..
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Guess I was looking for something more tangible ^^; I dinked around in basic when I was little and did some C, but decided against pursuing it because while I had some fun with it, there were nerds who LOVED it and I didn't feel like investing the time to compete with that. Of course now I've invested more time in something I don't like at all, have no natural aptitude for and have only succeeded based on good impression, perceived potential and personality ^^; Maybe too late to change or may still not be my thing (my brain is prone to error and I am highly unobservant so I found debugging frustrating), was just curious ^^
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Last thing I'll say is I personally like programming because in the career field you are inventing everything. Of course you face time lines and what not, but YOU are the creator. There is no SOP (standard operating procedures) to guide you through a boring process in which a monkey can do.
Most the time when you are given a project, your mind is your limit. MIS, in which I work right now, and have been for the last 20 years is freaking boring as shit. It's the same crap over and over. edit: The only thing that keeps you on your toes in MIS is security. How to make things more secure.....it's a constant struggle.
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Last edited by dafier; 02-07-2017 at 12:14 PM..
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There's plenty of jobs for GOOD programmers in pretty much any language.
If you're new to it, I'd probably suggest trying out Javascript because you can get started really fast and need nothing but a web browser and notepad. | ||
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Last edited by paulgiamatti; 02-07-2017 at 01:21 PM..
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In regards to C# and C++:
If you learn C#, you'll learn C++ basically. The only difference is garbage collection and memory allocation with C++ that you don't get with C#. C# does those two for you, which has its goods and bads. EDIT: What CaveTroll says. Except I disagree. I've been a manager of Microsoft based systems for years. There is money in it (not the same as 10+ years ago). If you have a clean life style, go government. It's guarantied work and the pay isn't as low as commercial industry.
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Last edited by dafier; 02-07-2017 at 01:29 PM..
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