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Teaching someone to program

What is the best way to teach someone how to program, the language doesn't matter. It's more of a case of how to make them think logical and clearly on how to over come a problem. Or is this something that comes naturally to most developers and can't be taught. Any online resources or book recommendations appreciated. ...

How to Find that Rock Star Junior Developer?

It's a fairly straight-forward process to interview a veteran programmer with 10+ years of programming experience. On the other hand, sometimes you just need a really talented junior developer. What do you look for--and how do you interview to find that "diamond in the rough," especially when the applicant is fresh out of college with a ...

junior to senior programmer

How many years of experience are required in order to pass from a junior to a senior level programmer? ...

Interview questions for Junior QA Engineers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61532/tips-for-hiring-good-testers I have already referred the above post, but I would like to know what interview questions can a fresh college graduate with no extensive experience can expect in an interview? He might have done a quality assurance testing course in the curriculum. Specifically, what ...

How do you give a junior developer a shot on a big project with tight deadlines?

I'm looking for advice on how to give a junior developer a chance to gain experience on a big project with tight deadlines without hurting the timeline. If we all know it will take a little longer with the developer because of less experience, then what is the best way to give them a portion of the project and spread the risk? Giving the...

Developing a DotNetNuke CMS website

I am a junior developer and I have just graduated from university this year. I am working private with some people and I have just been given a music website to develop using DotNetNuke. I have a some experience using DotNetNuke which I have gained making small modules that take care of certain functionality on a webpages but I have neve...

Where can I find 'best practice' code samples for PHP?

I've been 'hobby programming' in PHP for around a year now in my spare time, starting off with the "PHP and MySQL for Dummies" book and working through "Beginning PHP and MySQL from Novice to Professional". As I'm sure you can imagine, my knowledge is fairly limited and I'm probably already knee-deep in bad habits! I've been working on ...

Moving from Junior Developer to Mid-Level

After teaching myself coldfusion for around three years and doing a few sites for friends, I was lucky enough to get a role as a junior coldfusion developer. I have now been here for about six months, and have learnt alot so far about svn, project management, stored procedures etc etc. And have also been learning Jquery, CF9 ORM whilst ...

Going from a math career to a cs career: how to do it?

Hey, I'm looking for some advice on how to successfully make the transition from mathematics to CS. My academic background is in mathematics (BS and MSc), and I've taken loads of math courses as well. You name it, and I took it: Measure Theory, Algebra, PDES, Manifolds, Complex Analysis, etc. I progressed quite far along this track, a...

Making that move from junior > mid level

Hi, Before I start, I know there is another thread about this very issue (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2352874/moving-from-junior-developer-to-mid-level). I am in this very same situation, but of course every person and the company/employment-history is not the same. In my current company, I have not done one piece of coding from...

Tasks you'd assign developers with varying levels of experience

Hi, For a .NET Developer applying tgo a job requiring 1 year's experience, what technical tasks would you assign such a developer? And what not? Likewise, for a .NET Developer applying to a job requiring 2-3 years experience, what would you assign to this developer, technically? Also, how would the expectations be different? Thanks ...

What DON'T you look for in a Junior developer?

Why is this closed? It fits within the 6 guidelines for subjective questions! More specifically what are the skills that you would not expect or require from a Junior Developer before hiring them? TDD? Agile? Multithreading? Inheritance? Polymorphism?......... For the purposes of this questions lets define a Junior Developer as being ...