A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software.
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How to get better at debugging? [duplicate]
How can one become better at debugging in general? I do not mean specific tools or tactics that apply to a certain programming language or stack, but simply how to make your mind better at it, ...
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Why could one be called a “professional programmer”, as opposed to amateur? [closed]
Is it simply a matter of being able to write and code a working program, somewhat?
For example, I'm no C++ expert, but I do know how to write code and data, I know computer hardware beyond the ...
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Computer science jobs that don't let you develop software outside of that job? [closed]
I'm 15, and I was talking to my friends about what we wanted our future careers to be. I told them that I would like to have a job in the computer science industry (more specifically software ...
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Asking potential developers to draw UML diagrams during the interview
Our interview process currently consists of several coding questions, technical questions and experiences at their current and previous jobs. Coding questions are typically a single method that does ...
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why not use unmanaged safe code in c#
There is an option in c# to execute code unchecked. It's generally not advised to do so, as managed code is much safer and it overcomes a lot of problems.
However I am wondering, if you're sure your ...
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should I extend or create instance of the class
I have two classes
Class A and Class B
in Class A, i have three methods that perform the save, delete and select operation based upon the object I pass them. in Class B I perform the logic operations, ...
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Intern Screening - Software 'Quiz'
I am in charge of selecting a new software development intern for a company that I work with. I wanted to throw a little 'quiz' at the applicants before moving forth with interviews so as to weed out ...
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Should a developer create test cases and then run through test cases?
I work for a company where the development manager expects a developer to create test cases before writing any code. These test cases have to then be maintained by the developers. Every-so-often a ...
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What are programmers made to do in spare time in jobs? [closed]
Well, with no prior job experience I am completely ignorant of how things happen at software companies. I want to know what programmers are made to do when there is nothing to do?
Lets consider ...
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Hiring Developers - Any tips on being more efficient? [closed]
I represent a software company that is in process of building a large software development team. We are picky in who we hire and have really good retention rate (most of the devs have been here for an ...
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How to handle this unfortunately non hypothetical situation with end-users?
I work in a medium sized company but with a very small IT force.
Last year (2011), I wrote an application that is very popular with a large group of end-users. We hit a deadline at the end of last ...
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What are the pros and cons for having a dedicated T-SQL developer on your team?
Our T-SQL developer just gave his two weeks notice. We have been asked if our team of four developers would like an additional developer.
We are offered to do our own T-SQL / Entitiy Framework ...
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Organisation of Application Development Team Wiki?
Are there any resources available around that suggest best-practice structure for setting up a wiki for developers? I'll be managing a team that has not had the best track record for documentation, ...
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Interview books on data structures, tree operations, algorithms and algorithms complexity, etc [closed]
I might be prompted for an interview at Microsoft and since I've got some time to study I'd like a suggestion on some books or sources covering questions and answers for a software engineer technical ...
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moving from software development to business analysis [closed]
I am seasoned analyst/developer who has grown from a senior dev to lead a small team working on line of business applications for a large company.
In a last ten years I have been working within the ...
