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I work for company based out of Spain. Our US office is pretty small with only about 30 people, while there are about 300 in the entire company.
In our us office there is only 1 girl and only about 6 native English speakers. I think its pretty cool as I get to talk and get a peek into the culture in Spain.
I think C++ will always be a big player. I'm sure it will lose popularity to some new languages as time goes on but I doubt it will go away completely. There's just too much stuff already written in it and too many companies dependent.
In my experience the only terminal I have used that doesn't support multiple tabs was the windows command line. But Konsole does look neat.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I had to read it back in high as part of my AP Lit course. It's not a very long book but it is very well written and teaches you to enjoy life and live out your dreams.
My friend and I just started getting into Django the other day. Coming from Node.js it is a welcome change.
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chimmychonga on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm currently tossing around the idea of learning COBOL. The reason this has been on my mind is because its a very very old language. It seems that it has long since been out of the lime light for a long time but, many companies still use old legacy COBOL code. As the years go on I feel COBOL will become more and more in demand as many younger developers and students are no longer bothering to...
I saw this a while ago (about a year) and I wrote a hello world and another small program in it. Shortly after I had a job interview for a software dev. spot for one of my schools research labs and I brought this up in the interview, my future boss thought it was halarious!
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chimmychonga on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:19PM
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chimmychonga on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @09:30PM
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Hello HN,I'm coming up on my sophomore year in college as a cs major. I feel as though I understand a good bit more than majority of other people in my classes but I still feel as if I'm only an "okay" programmer. I understand it takes writing a lot of code to get better but other than that are there any tips you might be willing to share to help me on my journey to becoming a great developer?
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chimmychonga on Sunday April 27, 2014 @02:16AM
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I'm a CS major and I just got finished with finals. Other than working part time over the summer I will have a giant amount of free time that wasn't there during the school year. What books would you recommend I read over the summer?
Posted by
chimmychonga on Sunday April 27, 2014 @02:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm a CS major and I just got finished with finals. Other than working part time over the summer I will have a giant amount of free time that wasn't there during the school year. What books would you recommend I read over the summer?
I took my first class this time last year. It was Programming in Python a 100 level course at my university and my introduction to the world of Computer Science. I fell in love and I feel like a have a lot of material to cover in such a short amount of time. Most of my friends have been coding for years now, I feel like I have to hit the ground running in order to catch up.
thank you, this is like the second thing I've ever posted on here.
also I'm sure it would be important to note that I am familiar with Java, Python, C++, and am learning Perl this semester. I typically pick things up pretty fast so learning a new language (unless its just a strange one) wouldn't be that difficult for me.
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chimmychonga on Monday February 10, 2014 @09:50PM
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Hey guys, I'm currently studying CS and I am Sophomore. I would consider my self an "ok" programmer, I'm not by any means amazing but with that being said I'm not horrible either. Is there any projects open source or other wise that you might need some help on so that I can get some real world experience and something to list on my resume as well?
this is a new kind of torture.
unfortunately where i am most people tend to want people that have been coding for well over 5 years. we even get job offers through our academic adviser with some companies looking for people with 8 years exp and other things like that. like they're going to find that in an undergraduate program
i have dabbled with C and a C++, at our school most of our classes are in java, aside from some of the other classes like compilers and etc. if possible i do what i need to be done on Python but im learning perl this semester also. I haven't messed with c++ a whole lot do to its similarity with java. I feel like if i sat down and needed to do something i'd be familiar enough to be able to do it.
awesome checking it out now
Posted by
chimmychonga on Sunday February 09, 2014 @10:21PM
from the self-post dept.
The title says it all. I am currently a Sophomore studying CS at middle of the line university. Sometimes I feel like I don't know anything compared to some of the upper class men, including the ones that are only a year more along than me. So my question is what do should I focus on to ensure I will be relevant to the work force before and after graduation?