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Job prospects for new programers?
drventure:
Just from my own experience, there's a ton of positions out there.
I'm a VB.net guy, with some C#, lots of VB6, MSSQL, commercial software exp etc.
Learn how to use DICE, and CareerBuilder, maybe linkedin. Find some opensource projects you're interested in and contribute something, even if its just a little.
Or opensource some of your own projects and put em up on github or one of the other open source hosts.
Possibly start a technical blog.
There +are+ a lot of developers out there doing web stuff, so differentiating yourself in that crowd will be tough. But there are plenty of other niches that are not near as crowded. Commercial dev, drivers, GIS, integration stuff, hardware (for instance, controllers for fuel pumps or industrial systems).
Just a few things to consider.
And Vanguard's right. Specific experience is definitely good. I'm mainly a developer, but I've always ended up doing the installations for every project I've worked on, so I know InnoSetup, InstallShield and Wise quite well. I get tons of calls needing installer experience, which has gotten me past the front gates on several occasions.
stu33:
Medical Records software and interoperability. My company has been hiring new programmers lately. With all the Obamacare regulations, the medical software field is really growing, and it's not going away anytime soon, either. In my experience, it's really best to be able to learn older techs quickly. Most of these places already have installations in place, and they're old. Seriously old. I code mostly in C/C++/Java. I've done most of my database work with OLD libraries, like D-ISAM and C-Tree. Lots of SQL in this field too.
Right now I mostly work with communications, consuming and creating web services.
drventure:
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+1. I actually do commercial pharmacy software. There's lots going on in medical software, and there's a ton of room for new stuff to happen. Medicine seems to be quite behind the times, software wise....
stu33:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 05, 2011, 09:25:18 am ---When I was getting my bachelor's, they got rid of COBOL and Pascal, virtually eliminated all C classes, and heavily pushed JAVA...
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That's too bad about Pascal. I still think Pascal is one of the best 'learning' languages. Really teaches you about type safety and how to be a 'good' programmer, reducing code rot, etc...
Many of the programmers where I work were actually math majors that started programming in the mid-90s when coders were harder to find. Working in some of their older code from time to time can make my eyes bleed. The things they used to do would have failed any programming assignment I had in college. Over the last decade or so they've hired actual computer science majors (like me), and we've established a base set of standards to follow. I still remember the first day I was here I was working on one the reports and it was filled with goto statements...instead of looping.
yaksplat:
My company can't find enough people that are skilled in .net and the microsoft stack. I work in software consulting and i move from company to company. A few months here, a few months there. I ened up making contacts all over and work in a ton of different industries; banking, insurance, engineering, education.
I started out with Fortran, vb6 and java. Now i primarily use C#.
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