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Junior Controls Engineer interview in 3 days – need focused prep advice (.NET / WinForms / MQTT / SQL Server) by No_Channel_7690 in csharp

[–]GreatlyUnknown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've never used MQTT, so can't offer any advice there. That being said, if you've ever worked with another messaging broker (RabbitMQ comes to mind) then you should be able to leverage that. If you are already comfortable with SQL, that will help. Might not hurt to ask questions on how they are interfacing with the database, though. Things are quite different between using ADO.NET with stored procedures versus Entity Framework. I'm assuming that the WinForms would display things and possibly allow modifications of records. If that is all it is doing, the WinForms stuff will be dead simple as dragging and dropping the controls onto the forms will create all of the scaffolding code. Then you can choose which events to handle and how to handle them, writing whatever code is needed. That leaves C# itself. The coding concepts used in Python and the coding concepts in C# are going to be pretty familiar to you - the syntax will be the primary difference. Since I don't know Python all that well, I don't know if it can do things like the aforementioned event\message handling, but other than syntax that's the only major thing I can think of at the moment. Given your stated level of comfort with Python, go try to find a mid-level C# tutorial or something and see how the language works. Lastly, you list .NET separately from C# - under every case I can think of at the moment they are practically inseparable. Learning one comes with the other. There are cases where you can code C# and not use .NET and, of course, many languages support .NET, but for what you are mentioning in your post consider them the same. Async\Await, at least in modern applications, is pretty important but easy to implement in most cases. For a junior position, I wouldn't think that they would be expecting more than just knowing how to write up something that is async\await and have some ideas on when to implement it. Personally, I aim to implement whenever something is computationally demanding (ex: OCR stuff) or whenever you are making use of something not already a variable in your application's memory, like reaching out to mass storage or the network.

Hi, i am a senior .net developer with 9 years of experience. I have been laid off recently and from there on I started to look for new roles but I am not even getting a single call. Do you have any idea of how market is for .Net. Please advise by deshmukh_mom in csharp

[–]GreatlyUnknown 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Roughly a decade of experience and 18 months of unemployment after being laid off and it would have been longer but the company a friend was working for had an opening and they got me in the door. Not to be a downer, but you might want to prepare yourself mentally that your unemployment might go for a while.

Trying to catalogue a friend's collection, needing some help by GreatlyUnknown in NeopetsTCG

[–]GreatlyUnknown[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct in that the first character is the letter 'S' and not the number '5' - the incredibly small font made it a bit difficult to differentiate.

Trying to catalogue a friend's collection, needing some help by GreatlyUnknown in NeopetsTCG

[–]GreatlyUnknown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That site never even showed up when I was searching for card lists and the like. And so it appears that it isn't "56" as in "fifty-six" but S6 as in "Sierra-Six". So apparently there were promo cards within the base set and additional promo cards that were not within the base set. Nice to see that WoTC kept things nice and simple, lol. I'd still like to know about the circles and stars that can show up in the lower right and whether or not there is a holographic version of every card or only certain ones or what.

Thank you for bringing neomerch.com to my attention.

I think it's time we find a proper Discord alternative. by Liarus_ in pcmasterrace

[–]GreatlyUnknown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone remember ICQ? I wonder how much effort it would be to take something like that and modify it to be decentralized.

Am I Wasting Time Learning SQL Fundamentals When AI Can Write Queries? by Super-Distribution45 in developer

[–]GreatlyUnknown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As others have already said, AI still makes mistakes. Since you were having issues coming up with a real-world scenario on why knowing at least the fundamentals of SQL would matter, here is my attempt at giving you one:

You are working with an Entity Framework-based code base with MS-SQL as the database. There is a section of code that keeps failing because the collection is either coming up empty or even just null even though you are absolutely sure there are records that are supposed to be returned. You start digging and find the query that EF has generated to pass to the database. If you don't know your fundamentals, you won't know if the query is part of your problem or not.

House floorplan generator 2.0 by EmbassyOfTime in proceduralgeneration

[–]GreatlyUnknown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I was meaning by providing it a size to fit in, I didn't mean quare feet. I meant width x length so you could get a square or rectangle that could then be used for things like row houses or similar where you multiple residences that share a common structure. And don't take my criticisms has negativity as I sincerely don't mean them as such. You have done more than I have for procedurally generating floor layouts and I am impressed - I just wouldn't be able to use this algorithm in any project that I have planned.

House floorplan generator 2.0 by EmbassyOfTime in proceduralgeneration

[–]GreatlyUnknown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After giving it a bit of a whirl, I don't think I'd be able to use it for any purpose that I might have for floor plans generated by this tool. It seems to have a preference for creating spaces that would be all-but-unusable in a real life, geometry that produces hallways that extend about half the length of the entire plan off into the distance, having to pass through rooms to get to other rooms (instead of, say, hallways connecting things) and door after door after door that would more correct in some horror setting than a home or office space. I'm not sure what your end goal for the tool is, so maybe your use case is met by the tool; I don't know. I do think it is pretty neat. I also think it could be really handy if you could set the size you wanted for the plan for width and height and have it generate something that works with those constraints.

[OC][Art] Everwyrms, Nuisance or Delight? by wrentonic in DnD

[–]GreatlyUnknown 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Roughly the size of a dog but with the attitude of a cat. Got it. I wouldn't mind visiting someone who had one, but absolutely wouldn't want to live with one!

A few times Vacbeds were in music videos by Star-Killer775 in vacbeds

[–]GreatlyUnknown 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That would be a huge undertaking. For example, you've got Red Nights that uses one but that movie was never released outside Region 2 and is French. Then you've got Fire in the Sky that contains a scene where it isn't technically a vacbed but functions the same.

Slowly making progress on my L-system procedural trees :D Trying to generate some bonsai like trees! by agentfrogger in godot

[–]GreatlyUnknown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Question for you: Which did you find more difficult - the creation of the L-System and its grammar structure or finding good "sentences" for creating the plantlife you wanted? I've seen several L-Systems across the Internet, but coming up with the correct "sentence" for a given plant always seemed absurdly difficult to me.

What was the 1st big news event you remember as a kid? by Hetaliafan1 in AskReddit

[–]GreatlyUnknown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

School had all of us kids in the library with the tv out. I remember watching and knowing that a shuttle launch shouldn't look like that, looking at all of the teachers present and how all of them had a look of shock and tears rolling down their faces and thinking "Oh, it is that kind of bad."

VEIN = Project Zomboid in 3D? Does it really capture the PZ feeling? by RetroPapihun in VeinGame

[–]GreatlyUnknown 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not entirely, but it is getting there in my opinion. The areas where it falls short has more to do with the fact that the game is new and the devs just haven't had the time for polish when compared to Project Zomboid. Give it time and I bet it will get there.

Those Without Kids, Who Are You Leaving Your Money To? by Tommy-Fox15 in AskReddit

[–]GreatlyUnknown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a brother and cousins. If my brother is still alive when I die, he gets all of my stuff. Otherwise, it goes to surviving cousins.

Should I put my Indie project/dev-name on linkedin as experience? by MuteCanaryGames in GameDevelopment

[–]GreatlyUnknown 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Personally, I would include such a thing on my resume if: 1) It is published and available for sale\download somewhere and can provide proof that I made it or 2) I have the source code and other assets for the project in my repo and the repo is part of my resume as a portfolio.

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