What exactly is a learning curve? And why is it wrong to use the term "steep learning curve" for something which has high entry barriers and takes quite some time to get into? As to the why-ness of this question: The terms are used often and inconsistently on Stack Overflow I myself have been confused by it Mostly the newbies are co...
This is one of the things I've been hearing in Django VS ASP.NET discussion. I personally find it hard to believe but I never tried Django. So my question is: assuming that I am equally familiar with both python and the .NET framework but I do not know anything about Django or ASP.NET (with Visual Studio), is Django faster than ASP.NET ...
I am a software engineer that's had positions programming in VBA (though I dare not consider that 'real' experience, as it was trial and error!), Perl w/ CGI, C#, and ASP.NET. The latter two are post-undergraduate, with my entrance into the 'real world'. I'm 2 years out of college, and have had 5 years of experience (total) across the ...
I am asking about the learning path after you graduated from faculty of computer science you will know databases concepts, general programming languages (C,C++,C#,java,prolog ..etc), algorithms and datastructers, some info about OS Design and implementation ,..etc. what is the next topics you should know in the next 10 years?? should yo...
I'm a Java EE person who would like to climb the .NET learning curve. I've always had the impression that one important difference between Java and .NET was that the Microsoft suite required that you (or your employer) had put up some coin to get access to the tools. A Java person has the advantage of being able to download a JVM, Ec...
What do you do when you get assigned a project that is just way too hard to do: Say it's a mammoth project and your boss thinks you alone can handle it You have knowledge to do somethings, but some other things are a little beyond your expertise at this point in time Your boss probably thinks it's something that can be done by one pers...
I'm an ICT student. I've been doing it for 2 years and recently I started following developper blogs, got a twitter account to keep track of new blogs, lists of tips, tricks, free templates and other such things. Doing so has showed me that the amount of subject I thought I had to cover is actually vastly smaller than what's really out ...
I've seen many instances of people who are looking for programming assistance to a specific problem but are missing the fundamental understandings that they need. I guess the saying that this would be akin to is "punching above their weight". I'm sure that most of you have at one time experienced this, the copy-and-paste from the intern...
I'm looking at standardizing programming in an organisaiton. Half uses stored procedures and the other half Linq. From what i've read there is still some debate going on on this topic. My concern is that MS is trying to slip in it's own proprietry query language 'linq' to make SQL redundant. If a few years back microsoft had tried to...
We are looking at speeding up a project with new developers. How long is a typical Java + OpenGl learning curve if anyone has any experience ? The core work is on detailed globe visualization. ...
I started off programming with no formal education in it all. I suspect this was (and still is) pretty normal, especially with the culture around programming. However, this inevitably means that you're missing a lot of useful knowledge that you end up picking up the "hard way" ... by making mistakes and slogging through it. So, what m...
Background I'm trying to learn to program a little & python seems like a good choice for my purpose. I have no ambition of ever being a serious programmer.I already know bits and pieces of html, css, javascript (mostly how to cut & paste without understanding what I'm doing). The last time I actually "learned programming" was about ten y...
i know it depends on many thing. But can anybody tell me how long it should be ? I just want to draw a boundaries between successful and failed attempt to convert myself ? ...
So this is more of a generic question. I seem to keep finding myself being put on larger and larger projects. Recently I have been assigned to a very large project written in C and VHDL. The goal is for me to become familiar with the code and eventually take the lead on the project. This is by far the largest project I have been assi...
I'm attempting to teach myself Python as my first language. After reading through "Python for Dummies" I searched out a number of easy projects that I could attempt. However, my main problem is not knowing a large enough breadth of modules and functions to use. I feel like I just don't know enough. Sure, I understand the basics of buil...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1738870/how-difficult-is-it-to-learn-functional-programming-languages http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24279/functional-programming-and-non-functional-programming http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102911/whats-a-good-functional-language-to-learn-first I was exposed to the beautiful world of IDE fo...
I mean what is your way of doing thing when you need to get productive very fast but you don't know anything about THE language? Especially when there is no book available? ...
I , in some way, can be called somewhat experienced .NET programmer. I know somethings about programming, I can write code, I can debug and fix bug, and, get a coding job. But I'm critically thinking about creating a true career, which is, becoming a serious programmer/developer, not a so-so coder. There're two things I think that I woul...