How to get the foot in the door.
It's always been the case, and nowadays even more, that a CS degree is irrelevant for employers. Get an interview, show you're interested in solving problems for the company and grow on the job.
Creating personal projects - not todo apps - from scratch with proper back, front it's CI/CD will be very helpful for interviews to get a job. Best of luck
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Depends on the type of coder. For a full stack or backend engineer. Firstly you want to learn these patterns and concepts:
Loose coupling
Singleton
Adapter pattern
Facade pattern
OOP concepts like encapsulation, polymorphism etc...
Some algorithms and data structures
Data types and data structures:
Different types of numbers: floats, decimals, longs, int32 etc...
Collections like Arrays or Lists
Maps and dictionaries
Strings
Basic understanding of HTTP, TCP, UDP and the OSI networking model.
Next, pick a Language, either C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, Golang, PHP, Ruby or any of the modern languages.
Next, build stuff, start small with console applications, calculators etc... get into the art of constructing a program from scratch.
During this process you should think about data types, and the flow of data, how it's transformed and manipulated throughout your program. Learn to debug properly and solve problems of increasing complexity.
Next, you want to learn SQL and basic querying.
Next, pickup a framework like Django or Laravel or Asp.net etc...
Now learn MVC and how to connect a request to a route, controller, pull data from the DB and render a template.
From there expand step-by-step building something more and more complex as your knowledge grows.
While you doing all of this, push your code to Github and knock on as many doors as you can.
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In an interview, making it clear you're willing to learn. If you have example projects that you've built as part of a course/on your own, use those as examples of where you've demonstrated that you're self motivated and love to get stuck in.
Every role is unique and will require different skills, but if they're hiring a junior/entry level dev they won't expect you to know everything, but they will want someone who can pick up the skills required for the job.
yes, create relevant personal projects, but also learn the fundamentals (don't skip this!). During the interview, show that you know the fundamentals and that you can adapt and learn fast. Once you're in, you'll grow!
To be honest, if I'm the interviewer and the person in front of me didn't understand the concept of virtualization (namely I think to Docker) then I'll just be afraid because not using such tools would be really weird to me.
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How to get the foot in the door.
It's always been the case, and nowadays even more, that a CS degree is irrelevant for employers. Get an interview, show you're interested in solving problems for the company and grow on the job.
Data-structures, control flow and language syntax :)
Be curious about new things but beware of hype.
Don’t just follow tutorials—build real things! Start small (a calculator, to-do app, weather app) and work your way up
Creating personal projects - not todo apps - from scratch with proper back, front it's CI/CD will be very helpful for interviews to get a job. Best of luck
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Depends on the type of coder. For a full stack or backend engineer. Firstly you want to learn these patterns and concepts:
Data types and data structures:
Basic understanding of HTTP, TCP, UDP and the OSI networking model.
Next, pick a Language, either C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, Golang, PHP, Ruby or any of the modern languages.
Next, build stuff, start small with console applications, calculators etc... get into the art of constructing a program from scratch.
During this process you should think about data types, and the flow of data, how it's transformed and manipulated throughout your program. Learn to debug properly and solve problems of increasing complexity.
Next, you want to learn SQL and basic querying.
Next, pickup a framework like Django or Laravel or Asp.net etc...
Now learn MVC and how to connect a request to a route, controller, pull data from the DB and render a template.
From there expand step-by-step building something more and more complex as your knowledge grows.
While you doing all of this, push your code to Github and knock on as many doors as you can.
Hope this helps.
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Enthusiasm goes a long way!
Agreed!
Whatever you do, don't believe that a portfolio website amounts to anything. It doesn't. Do it if you want, but consider it practice.
What's more valuable is your GitHub profile. Contribute to open source, create your own repositories, etc. This is far better than having a portfolio.
You have endless possibilities. Don't put yourself into a barriers.
In an interview, making it clear you're willing to learn. If you have example projects that you've built as part of a course/on your own, use those as examples of where you've demonstrated that you're self motivated and love to get stuck in.
Every role is unique and will require different skills, but if they're hiring a junior/entry level dev they won't expect you to know everything, but they will want someone who can pick up the skills required for the job.
Best of luck!
yes, create relevant personal projects, but also learn the fundamentals (don't skip this!). During the interview, show that you know the fundamentals and that you can adapt and learn fast. Once you're in, you'll grow!
To be honest, if I'm the interviewer and the person in front of me didn't understand the concept of virtualization (namely I think to Docker) then I'll just be afraid because not using such tools would be really weird to me.
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LEARN TO READ DOCUMENTATION. Trust me, it helps a LOT.
First of all, you should learn some basic techniques, like programming grammar, sql, linux, network, windows.
Secondly, you can integrate computer technique to make some tools, like web reptile, traffic simulation, weather analysis.
Finally, pass some certificates. These things can make you more confident.