Possible Duplicate: How to get hired when lacking experience. Hello, I am a student, currently programming in java. I would like to improve my chances in finding a job, but everywhere is mentioned that experience is important, to write code, good design etc. The question is, what is this 'experience' ? A good portofolio (w...
As I know these two databases are the most popular and the best, but which one is the best? And what are the benefits to use one or other? Currently I use MySQL and I don't really have any experiences with Oracle, but I want to know what's the best choice and why? I mean how fast they are, what kind of features they have, how easy is t...
Hi! I'm planning on moving to Python and I have a couple of additional questions along with the title: did you have more fun with python? are you as productive as when you're using PHP? what made you change to python? Would you do a project again in PHP? If so, why? Your answers would really be useful for us PHP devs wanting somethin...
I've been having this on my mind for a while. How do programmers gain their experience? What are the most decisive factors? Is it the books? Or the job? The education? What turned you from the beginning programmer to the knowledgeable one? ...
When you decided to deploy a cloud setup what are the architectural/implementation issues you have faced and how did you resolve them? a few of them - (architectural) design patterns when you plan to move your existing application in to cloud what non-functional requirements should be give priority? how do you overcome the cloud over...
Hi, I have had to work professionally on a few technologies/languages till today: C++, C#, directX, opengl and now ASP.net. I realize that I am MASTER of none but average-good at all of them. My question is that for a successful professional career, is it favorable to experience many different technologies or try and stick to one ? Wha...
I started my first graduate job couple of days ago, but I'm quite surprised and a frustrated. My mentor is a person who has been working in the company for couple of months. He is really nice guy but I can see he is also frustrated, and my manager seems to be ok with it. I was going to raised this issue along other ones but I thought th...
I recently started learning Python and came accross the term Jython. From the Google search results, I thereby concluded that it is indeed a very important term. What is the experience programming/coding using Jython? ...
List 5 things you wish you'd known/done/emphasized differently now that you're in the workforce (in the context of your college software development). Thanks from KY for your wisdom. ...
Let me explain what I am trying to ask If we assume that one programmer has 20 years programming experience in general (means in many languages) and he has 5 years experience in Java language, of course, these 20 years are including 5 years. Additionally, he has 8 years as designer of design architecture & system as well as he has ...
I'm currently a senior research software engineer at a large company and am being offered a "senior staff engineer" position somewhere else. I am not sure if the new position's title conveys a sideways move or an advancement. So, in your opinion, what is the external difference between these software engineer titles (in general and rega...