Employment in America: WTF is going on?

Re:Employment in America: WTF is going on? by daemin on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @09:36PM (#6638873)

It's not a language talent gap, as learning the ins and outs of a new similar language is not a big deal. It is the talent gap of all the other related tasks that go into engineering and development.

Yes these can be learnt by a motivated junior developer reading books and the like, but they can be taught and explained better and faster by a senior developer.

Case in point when I started at a real programming job, I already knew how to program pretty well, but it was the other organisational and system design concepts that I needed help with.

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Re:Employment in America: WTF is going on? by philangist on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @10:52PM (#6639143)

What books would you suggest this junior developer read?

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Re:Employment in America: WTF is going on? by lstamour on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @11:20PM (#6639248)

Many of them. :D

Pragmatic Programmers was always a fun start for me back in the day, even some MS Press and plenty of O'Reilly.

Most of what I learned came from blogs and time spent at a computer, however.

There's no substitute for practicing the art of programming to learning actually useful programming skills. Write, run, rinse, repeat. Have fun :)

Oh and when applying for jobs, I found http://pragprog.com/book/algh/land-the-tech-job-you-love useful.

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Re:Employment in America: WTF is going on? by daemin on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:34AM (#6640031)

The Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete, and others in that sort of vein come to mind. Though some of those can be a bit language (and version thereof) specific.

It comes down to living in the trenches yourself or learning from someone that has already done so.

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