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Can I suggest that programming as a career is not for you?
There is an expression called "time in the trenches". Basically your first jobs in IT will be copy and paste, modify existing code, and generally very little creativity.
I'm mentored several junior developers straight out of uni (and one who is currently working for me part time whilst finishing their uni degree). One of the best attributes you can have is a combination of "I'll get it done" and "Have you considered this way instead". A note on that second point, remember that you're only starting out in the industry, so the answer to "Have you considered this way instead" might actually be "no, please do it my way".
Technically creativity won't come into play for many many years. Unless you're working on your own home project, you'll no doubt have both a manager and a customer. As a junior programmer you'll be dictated to over the type of code you'll write and how it'll look. Depending on the size of the project and how complex it is there will no doubt be an architect who has already made those creative decisions for you. Keep in mind that the architect has likely spent 20 years building IT systems and knows many pitfalls that you won't, and you're unlikely to find a company that's willing to let a junior spend 6 months making a mistake on a project just so that junior can learn something.
So basically, only continue going down the path of learning how to be a software developer if you're
a. Willing to spend time doing the crap jobs
b. Understand that it'll likely be years before your full creativity will be allowed to be on display
c. Understand that the world doesn't need more "glue programmers", a deep understanding of the code will be an asset in your career.
d. You're a junior (technically not even that yet), most of what you don't know you don't even know you don't know it. Learn, even if you can't yet see why, every great software developer has been down the same path that you're going down.
Finally, if you can't accept the realities of the industry, find something else do to as a career and keep programming as a hobby on nights and weekends.
modified 22-Oct-20 21:27pm.
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The point of reimplementing well known algorithms at your stage is not that you copy and paste the solution, is that you learn how to solve a problem, being it well known helps you and the teacher to verify that your solution is correct, so even if you reach the same solution the book does (which may not be the only way to do it, as there may be better and more optimized solutions), you have learned how to think about the problem and solve it, and those that copy and paste are not learning anything besides how to copy and paste, and hopefully, how to Google the solution.
Also, even if the teacher can't differentiate your solution from a copied one, if you're asked to explain it, he will quickly realize that you dind't do it, or that even bothered to understand what it does (Interviews are a different bag, especially when done by non technical people).
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again." Ray Bradbury
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When you were a child and wanted to open a tap to get water, you could just learn from your parents or friends and copy their action : turning the tap conterclockwise. That was the copy & paste time... Now you are a grown person and you are no more thinking about how to open a tap but why to do it.
I can say I'm an experienced programmer (47 years of developping applications of all kinds) and though I can write a sorting function from scratch (I may write it for my own pleasure!!!) I don't care about it; what is important is that, in order to make my new application work, I need to sort some kind of list and, then, I look for the simpliest way to do it. Doesn't matter by Copying & pasting or creating it or giving a young one the task to reinvent it (for it's own education), I just need to have the tap open so I can water my garden... And that is my real pleasure in life!!!!!!
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my FAX machine does not work now and I need to fax a contract document to employer within limited.
I tried one iPhone app and it can send out fax document. it triggers a question: is it safe to send out my contract document?
how does that App work? is it functioning as a standalone fax server, or it needs to use the fax server of the app owner?
diligent hands rule....
modified 21-Oct-20 11:15am.
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Is it safe to send a fax by any method?
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Carrier Pigeon is pretty safe.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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As long as it cannot read.
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I take it that fax machine sits in a communal area in your new employer's office?
So once you have faxed the contract back, everyone in the office will be able to see it and see how much you will be earning?
I would not fax something as confidential and important as a contract document, why not scan it and email it?
Or spend a bit of money to have a courier deliver it for you.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I works from home for long time. so I fax it from my home. initially I zipped it up with password using 7-zip, but the HR guy said they don't have 7-zip etc...
diligent hands rule....
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Dropbox? Google Docs? Skype? Slack? Any number of free, secure, file-sharing systems.
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His problem is not the delivery method it is that HR only know how to work a fax machine.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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my decision is to install iFax app on my iPad, and have free trial for 7 days. iFax seems very easy to use...
diligent hands rule....
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If you get caught stealing a kilt, should you plaid guilty?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Griff is mostly quite funny, but sometimes haggis in too deep.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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megaadam wrote: haggis Hard hearted harbinger of haggis.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Alas, only if from a young lass[^] (and she objects).
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Temporary insanity might be better; after all, one only does it sporran-dically.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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... and it's so much easier than the Bain Marie method.
Mind you I still had to make the crust cases, and the first set were unusable due to holes ...
Which means it'll be at least four hours before I can try them! Damnit - they smell soooo good ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Once again, you disappoint me.
When someone form the UK talks about a tart - well you know.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Even our government hasn't let that many pass away yet ...
I'm sure they wouldn't care one way or the other (like all governments) but the publicity might not be good, and they only care about money and their reputations in the end ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Note how none of the bureaucrats had to take a pay cut even with reduced hours.
"We'll get those late property taxes one way or another ...." - Canada's / world's greatest mayor; the only thing he's said in the last 6 months.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Don't forget the extraordinary reductions in atmospheric pollution of all sorts.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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