So I'm looking for a new job. I've noticed that the vast majority of companies are trying to hire A) Fresh out of college (or university) grads, and/or B) Senior-level developers who have a million (or two) years of experience. This leaves out the vast majority of programmers who would classify themselves as "intermediate", myself inc...
Hi All, I am curious about how some of you refresh your coding skills. For various reason, my dev skills have been idle for the last few months and was wondering what suggestions there where to dust the rust off. I used to be a dotnet developer (C#). I am currently working through the code Kata from codekata.pragprog.com. I am also ...
I am applying to graduate schools for a M.S. in computer security, information assurance, cybersecurity, etc. (they all have different titles). I figure a good place to find schools for this is on the NSA's Centers for Academic Excellence list. I was wondering if anyone out there has any experience at these or any other programs, an...
I see lot of junior, intermediate, senior positions in programming houses. Do you have to go into junior when you have no prior working experience ? For my case, I am not a computer science major, and have taught myself web programming for the past 4 years. I think not having a comp sci degree is a huge problem in landing interviews. ...
I'm considering studying to be a robotics engineer. The desire to work in that field is definitely there.. but I'm wondering what my chances of success would be. Generally I'm good with mental tasks of any sort such as programming, maths, physics, etc, and I think i'd be able to do electrical work such as soldering wires, changing batt...
Well, im not good in algebra and trig, could that be a problem when i get into higher years? But i do have the determination to study java programming. at this particular moment I'm only a first year IT student ...
I realize that this question is quite similar to this one, but news of a PE exam being developed specifically for software engineering by the NCEES and IEEE has piqued my interest. Should software engineering professionals take the (upcoming) PE exam for software engineering in addition to their degree (or relevant work experience)? No...
I'm a student not good and can't easily crack at more puzzle, complex mathematics, hard logic problems? in college i studied c++, java, oops. I'm comfortable with all syntax and writing programs and using API's and doing mashups, i can do.......... but once a friend asked help on coding contest, i was in dilemma and frustration? It was...
I’m planning to build Management Information System in Java for my final year project. I would like to use Spring and Hibernate, however I haven’t used any of these frameworks yet. Hence my question is, will I have enough time to learn it (I don’t mean to be an expert, just to be able to use them in my project) and still complete my pro...
He will be a developer inheriting a 6-year-old java+spring code base, and will be part of a 4-person development team. The code has threading components and messaging components. The code is messy and complex, with both client/server components, and overly structured with all kinds of interfaces, abstract classes, multiple branches from ...
I am a coldfusion programmer, at least that's what people have been hiring me for. Even though I am good with oracle/sql server, can design/model databases, rewrite queries for better performance... I really do love the work, but it seems to make me so unhirable. And I have no idea why? I am 47 years old, been programming since 1997, w...
Hello All, I am trying to scale my next step in my career. As far now i have worked in java, XML, JDBC. I have enough confident to take tasks in these technologies. i have had worked on XML parsing. Other than Parsing, What are the other things involved with XML which i need to learn? For e.g. Web Services. Does XML+Java+JDBC will al...
Right now, I work on a small team at a large company doing Java / J2EE web applications. My original skillset wasn't in this area, but I'm starting to get the hang of things and get some more responsibilities on the team. However, our team is in a bit of limbo, and we're unsure of the future direction of our flagship application (we're J...
Hey, I'm a student reaching a critical point - I've got to start looking for a job. The thing I'm most passionate about is applied cryptographic protocols and I've somewhat centered my education around learning as much as possible in this area. As a fresh grad I don't expect to find many opportunities to work in this field but I still w...
I saw some previous posts here abour Software Architect role so decided to ask this question. About 8 months ago I ended up as a senior .NET developer position on a brand new ASP.NET project building web application from ground-up for a large federal client(US govt). Everything here seems normal except for one thing that I found extreme...
I work for a small software firm, and I am one of two developers on staff. My coworker and I handle more than half of the support calls. Support calls are a given, there is no stopping them especially since one of the selling points of our flagship product is "free non-outsourced toll-free phone support". Usually, this gives us only a...
i have applied for a position in a company that works with siebel CRM and its integration with Java....i wanted to known certain things about this position from people who might have worked in this field..what is the average salary..and how would the learning experience be for a fresh graduate....will i have a good future in this field.....
With all the great tools, languages, and libraries around sometimes I feel like all I'm doing is putting together APIs and libraries. (working on web apps) I know that all this work that's been done for me is a good thing. And I'm aware that I can build powerful and valuable things leveraging all of this stuff. But it makes my work a l...
First Question - I've been "learning" PHP for about 3 years, but to be honest, I feel like I stopped learning it a while ago, so I want to start learning something new. I like web programming, and that's what I want to focus on, so I was wondering what the best/most useful language to learn would be. What language would I be best off kno...
I am a Junior CS Major at a Javaschool and I find myself having an easy time and thought there may be some good project or a language to learn or research in this newfound free time. What would you recommend so as to increase my ability to find a good job(somewhere that allows for continuous learning and treats its programmers well)after...