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Need tips to start Software Engineering

🇨🇬 RAJIL SAJILA — Sat, 26 May 2018 18:04:04 +0000

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It seems that I found many projects ideas yesterday I will add to the publication number 3 of my trip to become an engineer. So today I write the functional specifications for my first engineer project.

I tried to go step by step.
I don't hide you that my test project is a request from one of my clients (yes I have clients, in the previous publications I told you that I was a web developer already 7 years old) But I'd keep secret the purpose of the project. But nevertheless I am at the stage of writing a specification.

Writing Project specifications

In French we say "cahier de charges". The Google terms that I found as comparative for terms of reference are:

Technical Specifications

Project Specifications

Since I never learned in a school to write specifications for the client. Because I am a Sofwate engineer in becoming from scratch.

I went online in the hope to models of specifications. And since this morning 10 am (in Congolese time) I'm still writing the famous specifications.

I came to the conclusion that functional specification of a project that will be presented to a client (who's not involved in computer) are just formal.Different from technical specification that I have seen online.
Finally that's my starting summary :

1- Background
2- Presentation of the project
3- Project Organization
4- Technical Requirements

(I stop here and get back to writing my specifications)
But two problems locked me, hence my questions of the day:

1) Do I have to offer interfaces (HMI)?
2) How do I handle with use cases?
3) I do not know how to use other tools: if you need to draw interfaces I can do it with Illustrator? (I'm more comfortable with)

SOS engineers.

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Need tips to start Software Engineering

🇨🇬 RAJIL SAJILA — Fri, 25 May 2018 15:51:33 +0000

Need tips to start Software Engineering

🇨🇬 RAJIL SAJILA — Thu, 24 May 2018 09:21:15 +0000

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I have chosen my starter stack; My choice is JAVA as a starter stack , planning to learn :

JAVA SE - for desktop app (even it's kinda depracted) : swing is no longer developed , java fx seems to be the new option reminaing
JAKARTA is the new JAVA EE - for web dev
JAVASCRIPT (and its children) for any frond-end tasks
Android (with JAVA) for mobile dev in Android ecosystem

Questions (to perk):

where to host my JAVA starter projects online ?
Where to host my JAVA commercial projects ?
What is the real great learning path in JAVA WEB ? (I'm lost with all these JSP, JSF, Play Framework, Servlet, Spring, ...) Which one to pick ? Help me find the right path step by step.

My most fleshly wish

As I said in the publication 1 of my Enginneer starter thread, I was for 7 years WebDesigner; more than CMS - Wordpress, Drupal, and out of it.
So I end up with a lot of projects on 100% PHP hosting like justhost or godaddy.
I do not know if it is possible but I will want to create web services in JAVA and consume them on each of the PHP PHP (with javascript). I can hoster all web services on a JAVA hosting and as that always take advantage of my PHP hosting.

What do you think ?

This is my first challenge as a future Software Engineer, future JAVA Software Engineer. #MayMyWishComTrue

Some examples of a website with a java backend that I appreciated :

http://www.univ-poitiers.fr/actualites/
https://www.pole-emploi.fr/accueil/
https://www.jacksonhole.com/ (used to turn in JAVA backend)

Thanks your advises and tips would be helpful !

Need tips to start software engineering

🇨🇬 RAJIL SAJILA — Thu, 24 May 2018 00:56:58 +0000

Step 1 - Ask your peers in the field

I'm about to start again, everything from scratch,..... Any pieces of advices about How to start efficient Software Engineering? Building solutions from analysis to modeling, from sketching to code.
I'm a newbie Software Engineer with no-degree, have been working in web Dev, already 7 years as a simple Web Designer (CMS stuffs).
It's came to me that Web Design is boring , I want to put hands on dirty :)
Impatient to start again with JAVA stack (first) . Despite the fact I know that it's JS time I'd like to start by odd.

Thanks for your help !

Links, ressources, books would be appreciated.

Where to begin for writing a mobile payment API for my country (and countryside)

🇨🇬 RAJIL SAJILA — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:19:06 +0000

My wish is to build a mobile payment API that would help everyone to pay online no matter what carrier is subscribed to. I'd like to know where to begin ? Give me some issues / advices / tips where I can start searching for what to code.
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