Vinen
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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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Noodleface
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In my experience this is true. I never understood how adding layers and process onto what I do would help anything. Boss says "do these things" and I either do those things or tell him what I can't do and why.
Khane
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Speaking as someone who has also pretty much only ever worked as a one man team like you do now, of course agile isn't going to work. It's meant to help a team complete a project by keeping everyone focused on small tasks, you don't need that when you're the only one working on something. You gotta do everything anyway.
Agile can work, waterfall can work, they all can work. It depends largely on the attitudes of the people on the team and how the idea is implemented. The problem usually lies with these gung-ho attitudes that there is only one way to do things and you have to have strict adherence to some mantra. People turn into zealots over that shit and then you spend more time arguing about how to get things done than actually doing anything.
Noodleface
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moontayle
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Project approved for release!
Now comes the slightly less painful part. We have about 900 of these first gen devices in the field. We're slow rolling out the release to 50 every few days. If we don't get inundated with calls of broken devices, that number goes up. If we do... not sure what happens then. I'm confident of the former result after I was able to get the one problem device working perfectly. It hasn't had any issues since the final beta build.
On to the next project!
Now comes the slightly less painful part. We have about 900 of these first gen devices in the field. We're slow rolling out the release to 50 every few days. If we don't get inundated with calls of broken devices, that number goes up. If we do... not sure what happens then. I'm confident of the former result after I was able to get the one problem device working perfectly. It hasn't had any issues since the final beta build.
On to the next project!
When you argue with retards on the internet one must question who is the real retard?
Or the pigs and mud proverb
Noodleface
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DickTrickle
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My GF is going through an accelerated Computer Science Master's program and wants some more experience than what she feels she's getting (due to a combination of shitty graduate student teachers and the accelerated nature of the program). Does anyone know of any free or paid sites/programs that offer a lot of relatively small programming assignments as part of learning the material? In a lot of classes and sites, there'll be a couple major projects, but I'd like to find something that had a lot of smaller exercises to really reinforce and focus on individual concepts (I kind of feel like a lot of CS classes would benefit from being treated more like a math class in that way). Pearson has something called MyProgrammingLab which she found really effective in other classes but it looks like you have to be enrolled in a real class to access them. If it matters, she'd like to focus on Java, SQL, git, and web services.
Lendarios
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Build a database supported Ebay.
Create an UI to add products as an admin.
Create an UI that allows to enter usrs into the system, or even self register.
Create an UI that allows to search for products
Create an UI that allows to place bids on products
Create a mechanism, manual by an admin that allows for completing a bid ( it can be manual), like close bid, then highest bidder wins.
Email winner and losers.
That should keep her occupied while you play .
** not joking.. this is a good exercise**
If she needs more info, she can post here, I can give her more info on the individual items, but be careful Noddle will ask for tits.
Khane
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Usually those major projects are meant to serve as exactly what you're looking for. The end goal might be a large program with plenty of functionality but programming in general requires breaking things down into individual, small tasks and knocking it out that way. It's good to learn how to do that because that's how it works in the real world so abandoning that methodology instead of bracing it will be a disservice to her in the long run.
DickTrickle
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I'm a software engineer so I've been over this ground before. I think it's useful to have foundational knowledge before doing a large project, especially if you're extremely unfamiliar with the languages or technology involved. Doing a large project might end up just hitting certain areas of knowledge and don't necessarily reinforce the breadth of knowledge. For a small example, maybe the SQL required never needs to use the exist clause. However, a series of small assignments that have you create a query that requires the exist clause does. Or, you could easily make software without following OOP principles, but then you haven't really learned much about OOP. I just don't think the large projects that I've seen or been given are the greatest at actually reinforcing all that's been taught or supposed to be learned. It's too easy to just focus on certain areas or become a Google hunter that learns something in the moment. Imagine the difference in a math class that has homework once a month versus every chapter.
Don't get me wrong, there's a time to be challenged and forced to solve difficult and unfamiliar things -- I just don't think it's right at the beginning (or near to it).
Something like Project Euler or Code Kata would be great, but with a focus on those topics I mentioned.
Don't get me wrong, there's a time to be challenged and forced to solve difficult and unfamiliar things -- I just don't think it's right at the beginning (or near to it).
Something like Project Euler or Code Kata would be great, but with a focus on those topics I mentioned.
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Wait. doing a 6 page site is not a great project.
If she is doing amasterprogram, it is expected she already knows how to program. If not then she is doing a acceleratedbachelordegree.
What is she doing?
I may have misunderstood what you are looking for.
There is no better way of learning than actually solving practical problems, and putting the ass hours on the chair and typing code.
Also there is always pluralsight for any specific topic.
If she is doing amasterprogram, it is expected she already knows how to program. If not then she is doing a acceleratedbachelordegree.
What is she doing?
I may have misunderstood what you are looking for.
There is no better way of learning than actually solving practical problems, and putting the ass hours on the chair and typing code.
Also there is always pluralsight for any specific topic.
I don't think I even know anyone with a masters of computer science. I know a few that branched out into like AI work for their masters. It seems fairly uncommon.