One of the key skills that any software developer needs is a keenly developed ability to solve problems. I don’t just mean big problems, but little, well-defined problems like finding a specific item in a collection or sorting a collection. In my case, I find myself frequently trying to optimize my morning search for a [...]
Programmers have big egos. It’s not like it’s a big secret or something; we’re used to being right, and it can be very difficult for us to admit when we’re wrong. And, God help you if you ever have to say:
I don’t know.
If you say that, no one will ever respect you again, and you’ll [...]
There’s a big difference between having experience writing code and having experience as a professional software developer in the software industry.
I don’t have that much experience as a professional software developer. As for writing code, sure, I first learned to program on the TI-99/4A, when I was like 6 years old or something. But [...]
For professional software developers and full-time computer science students, nearly all of your time 9-5 is spent working on programming or something similar, for someone else, to get paid money, to pay the rent/mortgage and send the kids to college some day. I think a lot of software developers got into the industry because they [...]
I personally have a very difficult time understanding how anyone ever got by using just a slide rule, yet the Apollo astronauts took them to the moon to make any calculations there that they needed to. I sit there and think that it requires someone to examine the distance between two marks on the rule [...]
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