A junior programmer is also known as an entry level or intern programmer.
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programmers' skills compared to others [closed]
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, if that's the case then I'm ok with the question being closed.
Ok so, we are all programmers here, and I was wondering what are our views of our own ...
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What to do with a programmer that can't handle priorities? [closed]
One colleague in our team has multiple jobs to do, but he don't focus on the job that is currently the most important. In our team we always discuss the next steps, but he still don't focus on one ...
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How to train junior programmers for today's (complicated) web environment?
Currently our company develops applications consisting, most of the time, in Ruby on Rails web servers and a bunch of different REST clients, from kiosk systems in Java to embedded devices in C/C++ ...
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Aspergers Programmer and Learning Difficulties. Best way to overcome them? [closed]
I have Aspergers Syndrome, and a effect of Aspergers for me is that I can find it difficult to understand concepts from reading material unless I have some idea or mental visualization about what it ...
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Programming vs Engineering [closed]
I am in high school at the moment and soon reaching stages where I would have to make choices. To introduce, I love programming. I had started learning programming a year ago and have some experience ...
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Re-gaining confidence of senior programmer [closed]
My boss found out I'm not as smart as he thought.
An example from my experience:
I'm a junior programmer, and I work in a team of two, my boss (senior programmer) and myself.
I was tasked with ...
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What should junior developer expect from their senior team lead
I work for a small company of 12 people, of which 7 are developers, others are QA/Test and 1 is a Manager. I joined this company 1.5 years ago. 3 senior developers have 8+ years of experience.
These ...
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Resources for Novice Developer [closed]
I have a buddy who's expanding/overhauling a modestly successful web-based game that he runs. He's not exactly a newbie with the language it's written in, PHP -- he's been doing this for years. But ...
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As a junior programmer, how do I quickly make changes to large unfamiliar software? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tips or techniques to use when you don’t know how to code something?
I recently graduated on a Computing course, and luckily got a job as a junior programmer. Now, I ...
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Is it ok to become junior at 27? [closed]
I'm having a computer unrelated job right now, but I want to become a programmer, I have some objective-c and iOS knowledge, studying hard in my free time, etc. I'm looking into getting a junior iOS ...
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Best/ most efficient way to learn a programming language as a beginner [closed]
I am a student and have obtained a one year placement at a business that develops an e-commerce system using C#, HTML, WPF, javascript, ASP and more. Although I do have a little bit of knowledge, I ...
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Passing variables from PHP to C++
I need to call a program from PHP and pass some vars and/or sets of key-value pairs to it. How do I pass these vars, through arguments to the called function?
exec("/path/to/program flag1 flag2 ...
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What are the options for setting up a UNIX environment to learn C using Kernighan and Richie's The C Programming Language?
I'm a novice programmer and have been experimenting with Javascript, jQuery and PHP but felt I wasn't getting a real depth of understanding of what I was doing. So, after reading Joel Spolsky's ...
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How do I make the correct career decision in regards to product manager/QA vs programmer? [closed]
I'm curious about how to approach the issue of whether I should focus on programming or on QA/testing/product management. I know that the latter seems like a broad category( if so, think of it as ...
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Five new junior developers and lots of complex tasks. What's now?
Our company has hired five new junior developers to help me to developer our product. Unfortunately the new features and incoming bug fixes usually require deeper knowledge than a recently graduated ...
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Teaching myself, as a physicist, to become a better programmer
I've always liked physics, and I've always liked coding, so when I got the offer for a PhD position doing numerical physics (details are not relevant, it's mostly parallel programming for a cluster) ...
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Is it must for a junior Programmer to have a mentor? [closed]
I am a Jr. ASP.NET/C# Developer and I have been working with a Company for the past 9 months. I have been appointed to try and develop their Legacy System (built in Visual FoxPro) in ASP.NET/C#.
I am ...
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How can I teach my 12 years old brother how program? [duplicate]
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What are some good tools for introducing kids to programming?
Explaining programming to a child
I have a 12 years old brother whom asks me how he can build a website, ...
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How to inspire an intern with programming? [closed]
The situation is this - we took an intern for a summer with a mind that if he will catch up during summer, we will keep him as a part time junior developer.
We took him after his first year in ...
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How important are the people I work with? [closed]
I'm a very lucky individual who's managed to push a job I enjoy as a junior developer (I say push as I was hired as a Business Analyst but moved into development by proving I could do the work). I'm ...
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Good resources for learning about recursion [duplicate]
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Resources for improving your comprehension of recursion?
I am a programmer with 2 years experience, and sometimes think I could solve a specific problem with recursion, ...
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What do you need to do when mentoring a new graduate? [closed]
Well I have been THE junior developer in a small team for several years. Now, there is a new fresh graduate so I have become the not-so-junior-developer and have been asked to mentor him.
But I have ...
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How many juniors should a senior mentor?
Our shop's size increases dynamically, so we are planning to hire a few new junior developers but we would not like to overwhelm the seniors with too much mentoring and training. How many (usually ...
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Open Source Projects for Beginning Coders? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I find a good open source project to join?
After working as a molecular biologist at the bench for many years, I lost my job last year and am thinking about a ...
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How to Gauge Junior Developer Knowledge
I've started mentoring a junior developer. I've read the community wiki on how to mentor and have been following many of the suggestions in there. The developer has a couple years experience, mostly ...
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How much important understanding how a web framework works under the hood?
I'm using Symfony2 PHP framework to build a product. I got most of the features working and a satisfied client. Now I have to maintain this project. So I was wondering, is understanding how the ...
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Dealing with estimates as a junior programmer
I have been working for a couple of months now in a company that estimates (for the general population, not juniors specifically) tasks and then we are given the task, solve it, it goes through two ...
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How to be a successful programmer without a CS degree [closed]
Disclaimers (Please read before jumping to answer):
I've seen a number of questions similar to the one I would like to ask, so here are some similar questions.
IMHO They are neither completely what ...
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Recommendations for teaching junior programmers good coding style
I am a big fan of good coding style, producing clean, clear code that runs well and is easy to use and integrate into larger systems. I believe that we programmers are essentially craftspeople who ...
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Should a new programmer focus on a single technology until he's proficient at it?
Ok, I've been teaching a buddy how to program for a while now. He's a very fast learner, and he's quite good at programming so far. However, he has one "issue" I keep trying to correct.
He jumps in ...
