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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Do they hire external software managers/supervisors? [on hold]
You finish college, you get a degree, you have many years of software experience. After many more years and successes you look to get away from daily coding concerns and want to work more on the big ...
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Migration from a complex C++ application to C# a — good idea?
We currently have a complex VC++ software application, which uses a library like ObjectARX to build the dll. I feel there are many features in C# like Collections, Generics, and other libraries which ...
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Recommended Abstraction to transfer data over a nework than byte[] array?
I was curious, why do we prefer byte[] array to transfer data over the network and not anything else? Or if I am missing anything, what are the other ways to transfer the data over a network.
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Do Tech Firms use a lot of Algorithmic Practices that we studied in college? [closed]
I am yet to start my career, I have a profound interest in algorithm design. I somehow fail to understand that, how would a tech firm use the algorithmic paradigm? I mean in real life projects do we ...
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How can I determine what level (entry, mid, senior) I am? [closed]
I have an interview with a company headquartered in San Francisco. They are pretty popular, well publicized, and recently acquired by a semi-notable player in Silicon Valley. The team is probably ...
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Synchronization in the given Code
I had an interview few weeks back, and I was asked to write a code with Setters and Getters. I had written the following code;
// Just an example
Class ABC{
private int num;
public void ...
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How do I explain the importance of NUNIT Test cases to my Colleagues [duplicate]
I am currently working in Software Development for applications including lot of Mathematical Calculations. As a result there are lot of test cases that we need to consider. We donot have any NUNIT ...
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Share Mulitple Classes as one dll or a lib with Mulitple Projects
Currently I have some shared class files(.cpp and .h) which I include them in around 20 Projects. Currently I have to include them in all of the projects.
So if I get some business requirments and I ...
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How to understand computer science as a whole? [closed]
I am a college student in Computer Science, I have been studying CS for a long time. But even till today, I still feel so confused about a lot of things. First of all, I have solid foundation in alg, ...
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Secure an Application/Software by expiration with Date?
I have been working on some software application and I update them every 6 months. Currently, the way I track the date is by extracting the date from the system when the user installs the application, ...
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embedded systems vs application development [closed]
I have two questions in regards to software engineering: low level programming for embedded systems versus high level programming application development. One which has the most jobs in the USA and ...
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Solutions for floating point rounding errors
In building an application that deals with a lot of mathematical calculations, I have encountered the problem that certain numbers cause rounding errors. While I understand that floating point is not ...
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Is there industry demand for developers who have no GUI experience?
Is there still demand for developers who crate software without GUI's in the industry? Are jobs still in demand?
I only ask because I write a lot of software for myself in C. I mainly use FreeBSD ...
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How to handle deleting record with associated records?
this is not a technical question but rather about the right logic on handling delete with foreign key constraint. First of all, Im very new to programming and a dummy about software engineering. Im ...
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Working in a company that does not comment their code at all? [duplicate]
I work for a small software development house (10~ developers, a few product managers and a few support staff) that sells various products and services to organisations internationally through ...
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does a modern software developer need to know algorithms really in deep? [duplicate]
Nowadays, we need to APPLY the knowledge to know the fastest algorithm for some particular problems.
Devs don't have to know how algorithms work - they only know :
1.what task the algorithm is good ...
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What needs to change for Software Engineering to become a formal profession?
Unlike other professions (such as Accounting, Law, Medicine, etc.), there is no profession-wide certification for Software Engineering.
I am well aware of the multitude of technology and methodology ...
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What is expected in the documentation of a software project [duplicate]
I have about a month left to work on my final year project for college and between all my assignments and exams, I have to write documentation for it. On our college guidelines it states the ...
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Impact of ending contract with know-ins-and-outs lead developer of a project [duplicate]
I have a long time running project. Its been running for about 6 months. The project is very big. The lead developer/team leader designed the project and the whole project is in his brain. He knows ...
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Day-to-Day Differences between Software Engineering and Web Developer Positions [duplicate]
I am hoping to transition into the IT/development field and am expecting to start classes this summer. I come from a teaching background, but have also done freelance web development as a hobby for a ...
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Software Design and architecture from Scratch [duplicate]
I know a lot about programming syntactically. What I am unsure is about how should I go to build a software from scratch. How should be the objects be designed and how should they interact with each ...
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Is enrolling all programmers of our team in Microsoft Certification Training a good idea? [closed]
Is it a good idea to enroll all members of our development team in Microsoft Windows App Dev Certification Training? The goal would be to increase the quality of our product and having a more ...
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Is the following diagrams correct for RAD and Agile methodologies?
I do not know if this would be the right stack exchange site to ask this question but I have been researching on RAD (Rapid Application Development) and Agile methodologies and was trying to find ...
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Web developer to software engineer [closed]
I'm currently a web developer building web apps in PHP and Javascript. I really enjoy the programming aspect more so than the front end design side of things. I would to like to start to focus my ...
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How to prevent my executable being treated from AV like bad or virus?
I'm creating a piece of software, that will run on windows and will act like launcher for the game, to serve as an auto-updater and file verifier in client siede PC.
One thing I don't understand, why ...
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Should developers be worried about automation that make them redundant eventually? [closed]
Should developers be worried about possible automation happening in their projects that might make them redundant ? I never particularly worried about this myself but I have seen many developers ...
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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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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? [duplicate]
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 ...
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What is the structure of a team developing a computer game? [closed]
I wanted to ask if there is a typical structure for a team developing a computer game and, if so, what are the specific roles of the team members.
Also, what is the size of such a team (in terms of ...
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Should architect or dev lead tell teammate where to add their code before coding a new feature?
I have experienced with two kinds of team. After a feature is assigned to me, one kind of dev lead tell me the exact file or class to add my code, another kind of team just say the story or ...
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Copyrighting software, templates, etc. under real name or screen name?
My question is hopefully simple--should I copyright my work (art, software, web design, etc.) under my real name or my screen name? My real name and screen name are also easily connected with a bit of ...
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My software is hosted on a “bad” website. Can I do anything about it?
Edit: Thanks for all of the answers, guys! I think I'm just going to include some kind of text on my webpage telling users to only download from the links provided. The thing is that there have been ...
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How to manage a developer who has poor communication skills
I manage a small team of developers on an application which is in the mid-point of its lifecycle, within a big firm. This unfortunately means there is commonly a 30/70 split of Programming tasks to ...
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Is there a way for developers and their clients to make a 'safety net' for the final transaction of software for money?
First off, we presume that the projects in question are not large or important enough for the parties involved to establish a formal contract, and that the parties are not able to meet in person.
So, ...
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How to sell my work?
I'm a freelancer, a company I'm working with (which has a government as customer) asked me to write an app (web-based and/or system) to allow them archiving documents, and making them downloadable by ...
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Are R&D mini-projects a good activity for interns?
I'm going to be in charge of hiring some interns for our software department soon (automotive infotainment systems) and I'm designing an internship program.
The main productive activity "menu" I'm ...
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Are there low stress software jobs? [closed]
I've worked for two major software companies and I cannot deal with the stress.
These are the stressors...
Being asked at the end of the day to get something complicated done that day.
Being asked ...
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from software developer to a software teacher career [closed]
I am a software engineer on a large company and I love what I do. However, I feel that on the long run I would like to become a teacher on these subjects, not exactly a classic uni teacher, but more ...
