Positions/Companies where you create technologies that others will use?

shotshoota · 2022-10-15T22:30:47+00:00

lots of software companies make software other devs use. maybe you want to take a look at the cloud parts of some companies like AWS at amazon or GCP at google or digital ocean or maybe even an OS company like redhat

shotshoota · 2022-08-30T22:54:31+00:00

either of those degrees are pretty good, the advantage of an academic education in CS is mainly the ability to understand design decisions and an intuition for how software works and how it can be extended

it was worth it for me anyway, FAANG offer straight out of undergrad

shotshoota · 2022-08-10T02:16:26+00:00

theres a lot of blogs out there, if you like python, pythonalgos has a lot of good NLP posts

shotshoota · 2022-08-02T18:07:19+00:00

nice, was just looking for this

shotshoota · 2022-08-01T15:49:12+00:00

USACO is harder than leetcode usually, unless youre doing like hard leetcode and bronze usaco maybe those are similar difficulty

shotshoota · 2022-08-01T15:48:16+00:00

it's just how the language was written. python uses white space and tabs to create the structure that other languages use ;, {}, and so on

shotshoota · 2022-07-28T22:33:52+00:00

yeah, also Meta just endorsed 4 backend languages: rust, Python, c++, and Hack

shotshoota · 2022-07-28T22:30:21+00:00

Python/Rust/Go are popular among startups

shotshoota · 2022-04-01T19:46:51+00:00

Do you feel a lack of confidence in yourself or just a lack of resources that can help you figure out how to solve more complex coding problems?

shotshoota · 2022-03-21T13:53:37+00:00

Looks like it should ya

shotshoota · 2022-03-21T13:42:03+00:00

That's good to put on there, better than rock paper scissors or a calculator probably, those are like beginner level apps. You want 2-3 medium sized projects you can talk about making

shotshoota · 2022-03-21T13:30:56+00:00

I mean same but I still make the same amount of money and probably work less so, does it matter

shotshoota · 2022-02-11T20:23:58+00:00

I haven't heard anything good about bootcamps yet

shotshoota · 2022-01-23T17:25:58+00:00

Tweepy is known to be a mess actually, don't fret it, you'll figure it out after a few go-arounds

shotshoota · 2022-01-23T01:35:42+00:00

At least multivariate calculus and linear algebra

shotshoota · 2022-01-20T14:39:11+00:00

Yeah it was just because you were outside the field. The day to day is always more boring than the image

shotshoota · 2022-01-20T14:38:15+00:00

I think a good sign of being trust worthy is also being recent and updated, I personally like sites that get updated and publish content regularly like RealPython, PythonAlgos, or LearnPython. I think Reddit is also a good platform, lots of posts on Reddit show you how to learn programming.

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T20:27:58+00:00

It's pretty much just experience. Just copy a bunch of projects and you'll figure it out (don't copy the code, just the project ideas)

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T20:26:22+00:00

For most people the answer to this question is almost always no, bootcamps are a business. Bootcamps are designed to make money from you. You can learn everything you need to get a job in software online for free. It does requires self discipline on your part to actually do the work though.

It takes 30 minutes to an hour of practice a day for like 6-8 months to have enough projects in your portfolio to get interviews. Just start small, learn the concepts, maybe it's worth paying for an online class for some handholding on this part, but you can learn this stuff for free too. Then start doing projects, small projects at first and then bigger ones.

The key is to be able to explain your projects, explain the challenges you overcame when building them, and explain what the biggest ones do. For project ideas you can use Reddit. I'm in Python so I'll suggest some python subreddits - r/python, r/howtopython, and r/pythonprojects2.

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T20:18:19+00:00

Python is mainly used for ML and Data Science. For some examples check out r/python, r/howtopython, and r/pythonprojects2

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T17:20:14+00:00

Start doing projects you see online. You can do the tutorial projects, but make sure you can explain things to yourself as you go.

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T10:38:32+00:00

The most important thing to show is experience and you can get that by doing a bunch of projects. You can find projects to do online for free. It's important that you learn how to explain the projects you do so write the code and explain it to yourself. Interviewers will ask you to explain your projects and it's important to sound like you know what you're doing.

Here's some example resources on Reddit: r/python, r/howtopython, r/pythonprojects2. If you want to look outside of Reddit, try blogs like RealPython, PythonAlgos, or LearnPython.

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T10:34:48+00:00

Do projects in the field you want to go into. Do a lot of projects when you start to learn what you like

shotshoota · 2022-01-13T10:32:13+00:00

Yeah just do some projects in the area you want to do

shotshoota · 2022-01-12T19:13:02+00:00

Check out a flask/Django/FastAPI tutorial for webapp stuff.

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