How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a software engineer in 5 months

Re:How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a softwa... by oijaf888 on Friday October 11, 2013 @05:18PM (#6535987)

Your list seems very targeted towards website development and not so much towards a lot of other parts of software engineering. I doubt many software engineers who focus on embedded systems would know much JS or those who focus on trading software, etc.

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Re:How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a softwa... by noir_lord on Friday October 11, 2013 @05:22PM (#6536006)

I specifically say in my post "lets say a web developer".

That is where my area is, I've no idea what I'd want for an embedded developer but I suspect the list is no less complex.

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Re:How I left a 4 year career in finance and became a softwa... by DerpDerpDerp on Friday October 11, 2013 @05:39PM (#6536078)

You'd need to know a lot more about data structures, memory management, hardware in general, and probably be at least passingly familiar with the concepts of verified software and the mathematics underpinning computer science to work on embedded systems.

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