Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think
by ry_ry on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:29PM
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PHP is paradise compared to the bed of glass and nails some of us 30-somethings had to drag ourselves through man.
Lotus Domino. Never Forget.
Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think
by acveilleux on Friday December 04, 2015 @03:59PM
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I was lucky enough to start on the sys admin side and in smaller companies and just after the major switch away from Novell to NT4. I skipped a lot of the early/mid 90s stalwarths.
"client-server" VB6 apps with an MDB file on a NT4 fileshare passing as server is the lowest I've been lucky to have to deal with. Boy that was crap. That and actual cgi-bin script actually written in perl.
Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think
by ry_ry on Friday December 04, 2015 @04:20PM
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cgi-bin's seemingly incredible power made me accidentally learn pearl.
I suspect it broke me as a programmer for years!
Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think
by spacemanmatt on Saturday December 05, 2015 @10:04AM
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Or learning to program in C on DOS, where a bad pointer could not only hose your program, but easily hose the OS too
There's always a few programming jobs that no one wants because the pay is awful and the company/job description is crap (PHP web apps for 28k/year? ROFLOL). But then they act as proof of employability for slightly better companies and soon you have 12-24 months of "professional" experience and landing interviews at OK companies is not unreasonable.
That's how a lot of us, no degree type, got our first foot in the door.
IT systems type roles are also a good segue into programming roles. And IT admin roles are so much easier to land.