How do I get into the Software industry?
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Yeah, that's how I did it. The apprentice system is still alive and well in certain disciplines like ours. I just basically hung around this guy at work for a while pestering him with questions until I could do something useful. Then they had me to do all the grunt work for a year or so, writing SQL procs, tweaking javascript, etc. Then I got more responsibility and a raise, and by the time I left I had a real resume and landed a real developers job. I personally think this is the way to go, because you get the taste of what a developers day is like right from the start. When I was in school there were quite a few kids that were majoring in CS that actually didn't like computers much, a few that didn't OWN a computer, and several that didn't like spending hours staring at one. I feel bad for the rude awakening they're going to have when they find out what we actually do. But I guess then they can always fall back to sales :laugh:
DiscoJimmy wrote:
But I guess then they can always fall back to sales
Or management... They do say that those who can't instruct others.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton
I gave up when I couldn't spell "egg". Justine Allen