I am holding a course on the C programming language, and I want to show the students some real-life useful applications of C, to catch their interest. Usually all they see are boring programs, with no practical utility, so I am wondering what sort of useful applications can be presented, maybe something that they can use on their own (ho...
I have a coworker who's struggling with some of our newly adopted technologies. In the area of this technology I would regard him as "gets things done" but not "smart". He is really trying and really not getting it. He's extremely valuable in other areas of our technology stack so getting rid of him would not only be cruel but detrime...
Do you think it would help if programmers were more adept at scheduling, public speaking, communicating, accounting, etc.? Or would this just be a distraction? I know this might make someone a better company man, but would it really make you a better programmer? On that same note, do you think people who manage programmers should be r...
I was just playing "Restaurant Empire 2" and it has a pretty complex interface for a video game in which you are basically running a restaurant with tons of sub-menus and complex controls. That video game is more complex than 99% of websites I've seen and used and is probably as complex as most of the software a person running a real re...
Is any one know about good software architecture training with .Net framework. I am in New Jersey and looking for 2 to 3 members. ...
Hello, folks I'm not quite sure if this question is strictly correct for SO, but i know you guys can help. If it isn't however, no hard feelings about voting to lock. I am very interested in learning to program, and it's been my hobby for a good while. I have the fiscal oppertunity right now to take a long-distance learning course, so...
My last post was a monster and it peaved some people so I'll keep this one short. Besides self study in books and google, are there good resources to turn to get guidance from actual humans Online? Say i want to write a piece of software as a project and take a crack at it. It would be great if I could turn somewhere for some mentorsh...
I am an advanced Flex developer looking to quickly ramp up my Java knowledge. I have solid OOP knowledge and can understand normal Java code well enough but would like to take things a few steps further. Specifically I want to get (reasonably) comfortable with app servers and Java environments, Spring, Hibernate, AOP, DB integration, etc...
I have recently considered going on a training course for WPF so I did a quick search and at the top of the list was this training course from Learning Tree. It seemed like possibly what I wanted however when I looked at the price I nearly choked. £1700 for a 4 day course. As if that wasn't enough I was greeted with this tempting phot...
During past years, my company has successfully used client-server technology, with a now very old programming language. A large percentage of our income is based on maintenance projects. All of our developers are good software engineers, but most don't have experience with new technologies. Now, every new project sold is developed us...
The motto of Brian McCormick's excellent basketball newsletter is "Practice in Proportion to your Aspirations". What percentage of your work time do you spend practicing your craft? I once attended a Microsoft Code Camp and asked this question of approximately a dozen speakers. The answers ranged from 15% to over 30%. Jesse Liberty...
I've heard some arguments that doing a correspondence/online university course isn't worthwhile, since employers have a stronger preference for students who have studied at a "real" university (and hopefully a big-name one). My question is - does this apply so much to those such as myself, who are already deep into their career as a dev...
Hello guys! We'll soon have some high school kids here in our company for some training lessons in programming for about 1 1/2 days. We decided to do Visual Basic.NET and thought about programming a little calculator with the four basic operators. Considering the fact that they will be here for only 1 1/2 days, this application might ...
I have exactly 1 month until I start a web app project (standard 3-tier) using Java. I can probably decide on the frameworks and (frontend) technology used. The app will most likely be contained in Websphere. I am coming from a .NET (mostly) backend development world (SQL Server, basic NHibernate, basic ASP.NET). If I can spend all my ...
When working on an agile development project, how do you incorporate into the estimation of time for user stories/use cases/etc. the time it takes to train new developers on unfamiliar technology being used by the project?? How do other managers handle this? Of course, my question assumes that one has deemed the technology in question ...
I was bullied into giving a four hours Perl training. What topics should I cover? There is a similar question already, but I found that question to be vague, and the answers equally so. So I'll be more specific in what my outline is. To me, Perl is about getting things done. My Perl scripts are one-shot scripts intended to solve specif...
There are lots of training methods from different vendors to learn .NET technologies (i.e. books, DVDs, online training, etc.). All of them claim the same thing: that they are the best, their content is 100% guaranteed, makes their customers professional in no time, etc. It’s confusing and sometimes frustrating as well. I especially wa...
To me it seems that classroom training gives us building blocks of technique, but rarely covers actually building anything large or complex, and even when classroom training covers "large projects" you are still just graded on getting the correct end result. Where should people turn to learn the larger aspects of software design? Speci...
I am USA based sharepoint developer. I have 2 years of sharepoint development experiance. I am looking for Intermediate level training. My topics of interest are BDC, workflow etc. Anyone has suggestion for Sharepoint training? ...
At a small software company, we have several developers who are very competent programmers but who have no formal Software Engineering training. As part of their career development it is time to offer them greater responsibilities, particularly at the earlier stages of the software lifecycle. What good training material is available abo...