Questions around the proficiency of a particular technology or ability. Examples could be proficiency in C# or gathering requirements.
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School vs Self-Taught [duplicate]
Do you think formal education is necessary to gain strong programming skills? There are a lot of jobs that aren't programming but involves programming, such as tech artists in games, fx tds in film ...
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5answers
808 views
Does dealing with legacy code help one evolve as a programmer?
I'm a Java developer with a bit more than a year of experience which places me somewhere above a junior, but not among mid-level developers yet. Recently I was offered a long-term project which is ...
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13answers
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If my team has low skill, should I lower the skill of my code?
For example, there is a common snippet in JS to get a default value:
function f(x) {
x = x || 'default_value';
}
This kind of snippet is not easily understood by all the members of my team, ...
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3answers
491 views
How do you visually represent programming skills? [closed]
I had a discussion with a recruiter recently that made me wish I could visually represent programming skills. In trying to explain how skills relate, what are the important properties of those ...
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5answers
421 views
Evaluate one's skill and improve it? [duplicate]
I've taught myself a set of scripting and programming languages and right now I am very pleased with C#, I am the type of person that learns best by doing it and while I am able to create pretty much ...
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2answers
381 views
Why is Flags Enumeration considered an intermediate skill?
I was reading this article: Designing Flags Enumerations @ msdn and it says
Combining flags enumeration values is an intermediate skill that should not be required for developers implementing ...
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6answers
1k views
What can a technically proficient senior software developer study to keep improving
Say you have been programming for over 10 years. You know many languages, with few of those at very detailed level. You have been designing architecture for solutions, worked on and delivered larger ...
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6answers
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Engineering interview candidate refuses to use whiteboard
Today I experienced a first in a technical interview. The candidate refused to use the whiteboard to solve an algorithm question, as I requested. There was no sort of disability at play or anything ...
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1answer
253 views
Most useful foreign language for a programmer [closed]
I'm going to learn a foreign language.
I'd like to hear the opinions of multi-lingual programmers and developers who have made use of a 2nd language on what they perceive to be the language they've ...
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6answers
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Pair programming when driver and observer have different skill level and experience
I know pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer, reviews each ...
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2answers
963 views
Are these SQL concepts for beginners, intermediate, or advanced developers?
I've been learning SQL recently and practicing with MySQL/Postgres and soon Oracle DB. I've also search the web for a 'road map' study of databases but couldn't find one, unfortunately.
I want to ...
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0answers
90 views
Resources for small programming excercises [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Books or websites containing easy programming problems?
Are there any resources that offer small programming exercises?
I am looking for problems that are relatively ...
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3answers
241 views
Should the analyst define the programmers and their seniority needed by the project?
It might be obvious, but I am not sure.
Should the analyst who interview the client, gather and analyse requirements then give an estimate, also specifies how many and with how much experience ...
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7answers
664 views
What is the correlation between programming language and experience/skills of their users?
I'm sure there is such a correlation, because
experience and skill leads good programmers to picking languages that are better for them, in which they're more productive, and
working in a language ...
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3answers
390 views
Can working exclusively with niche apps or tech hurt your career in software development? How to get out of the cycle? [closed]
I'm finding myself in a bit of a pickle. I've been at a pretty comfortable IT group for almost a decade. I got my start here working on web development, mostly CRUD, but have demonstrated the ability ...
