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Feel free to laugh, joke or insult me, but I was curious:
What are the odds of someone employing a self-taught programmer, in the early stages of University?
Taking into account you would need to get them to let you prove your skills, I expect them to be low.
By self taught, I reckon I'm at a competent level. I don't have too many specialist areas but I would say I know enough about coding to debug and write basic stuff, if only to keep more qualified people less busy.
Also, I wouldnt expect anyone has actually been employed from this status?
(On a side note, this post marks my becoming a "Regular"  ).
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Without qualifications or an employment history the only way you'll be able to persuade an employer to take you on is by offering to work for little or nothing, at least until you have been able to prove your value.
I could see a very small and informally organised company using someone who came with no paper or history but who demonstrated ability to do grunt work at a cheap rate, but not any glossy corporate partner.
I was horrified recently to learn of a UK company offering "work experience" to unemployed people and charging them thousands of pounds for it - just to get 'experience' on their CV!
Brian
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Oh yuck... I wouldn't pay anything for experience. I'd rather make it up than pay for it, instead of being able to write "I have repeatedly been ripped off" on my CV.
Thanks for the input. I'm not properly considering getting a job as a programmer, since Uni takes up most of the day, but student work is easy enough to find round here.
Just means, if I drop out of Uni then I know I'm safe...but I'm not pessismistic enough for that.
Ninja (the Nerd)
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I've been pretty lucky in my job search but I considerably put odds on my side by working on my employability skills, right off the bat my boss told me he hired me because I seemed to be a go-getter ! From my small experience, there seem to be no course that would've helped me with the skills to make the job, working efficiently (not perfectly) and completing your projects will probably be a great asset.
Je vous salue du Québec !
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HI,
I have an application Ensemblepro, which shows realtime stats of the business in our organisation. It uses remote DB to store. and i didnt know the structure of the DB. (Limited Access). I need to get the real time data ?????? From that application in any format???
Can anyone post ur suggestions...
Thanx in Advance.....
Bala | Gurgaon, India
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If you don't know the structure of the database, how do you expect to get any data, let alone meaningful data!, out of it??
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 HI,
Thanx for ur quick reply.
I didnt have db access but i have some dll's of that application. is there any possibility to do something with those dll's (Im sorry if im wrong, im just a fresher to system programming)
Regards,
Bala
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Sounds to me like you're trying to hack your way in somewhere. If this was an official, sanctioned, project you'd have access to all the information you needed.
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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It was official, but we are taking support from third party vendor. They refused give us access to the DB. But we planned to have those stats available for all the user over the internet.
If u have some idea. Plz share it. One clue, That they have designed that application using msaccess as front end.
Bala
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Hi
We have a heated debate in our office about the streamsize a webcam uses to tranver video over the web. Can anyone tell me what the streamsize is in kbps ?
I know it varies from connection type, but lets say our office has a 4MB broadband ADSL connection, what would the average kbps webcam traffic be ?
Thanx
Le Roux Viljoen
Web Developer
PCW New Media
South African Branch
www.pcwnewmedia.com
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Any. Various servers will use any bit rate they are programmed to send, even variable rates that change during the playback. There is no answer to your question.
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Hi Everybody,
I am developing an application that Mapping data from flat file to multiple tables in the database. How to develop that application using C# in windows application. Please give me suggestion. Is there any sample code in Code Project.
Venkatesh,
Mumbai
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Suggestion 1) You'll get a quicker answer if you post questions like this in the correct forum.
Suggestion 2) Check out FileHelpers! http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/filehelpers.asp[^]
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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Has anyone got any recommendations on training providers in the UK? Any positive stories, any bad experiences?
PS I mention Computeach, as I've just sent off for one of their brochures
PPS I'm particularly interested in Microsoft certifications, but any experiences of UK training providers welcome.
"It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday."
-Moleman
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Two years ago, I landed a great job reporting directly to the director of my department. I was told that I had the freedom to dream and create some wonderful apps for my department and to bring that energy to other departments in the organization. I did just that, got glowing performance reviews, fantastic feedback from the customers and coworkers, and began to tip the culture out of its old way of thinking. My boss has been working on a reorganization for a couple months and told me not to worry about our reporting relationship and my role in the organization.
Can anyone guess what happened?
Now I am to report not directly to him, but to someone who is non-technical who reports to the boss. This person has an amazing ability to make people so mad that they want to punch him, and now I have to take direction from him. How have you people handled this situation? Should I pitch a fit in the hopes the big boss will change his mind? Should I polish up my resume and be glad that I had it good for a couple years? Should I just keep my head down and shut up? I feel lied to, betrayed, and generally pissed on.
Marty
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mmorin wrote: How have you people handled this situation?
Usually by looking for another job...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I'm been having kind of a running argument about programmer productivity in a c++ type environment about how many line of code a programmer should be producing.
YES, I know that this is a hot topic with no good answers.
However, I'm looking for suggestions about what would be reasonable number. I've seen stats saying about 9K/year. He is saying about 1k-2k/week of fully debugged code. I think that number is a "little" high. But I don't have any data to back that up.
Anyone out there have an idea what a reasonable number is or where I can get some information?
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Tom Thorp wrote: He is saying
Who is he? You've not mentioned this.
Tom Thorp wrote: Anyone out there have an idea what a reasonable number is or where I can get some information?
Well, it depends on what the developer's role really is. If they end up stuck in meetings for hours per week the KLOCs will go down. If they are a dedicated code monkey the number will go up (but, I'm betting the quality will go down)
There is no answer to this question. It was a hot topic years ago and I really had thought it had dropped off the radar and crash landed somewhere. IMO it is not a valid metric to measure developer productivity.
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What is a line of code ?
Do these count:
- empty lines (cosmetic reasons or other)
- comment lines (I hope they count)
- just a curly brace (the westcoast-eastcoast debate)
And should your stats go up:
- when duplicating code from one class to the next
- when splitting a declaration with initializer in two lines
...
And should your stats go down:
- when you solve the job with fewer lines (by being more clever about it, not
by putting more on a line);chances are there are fewer bugs.
- when you find ways to reuse existing code
...
etc.
Hence, it makes no sense to me either.
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We, a small developer team, are migrating our application to .Net and looking for a specialist, in giving us advices and support in advanced programming problems on demand via Internet (Skype, MSN, Remote Desktop, etc). We work under Visual Studio 2005, C# and MS SQL Server 2005. Job will be remunerated. If you are interested, please contact immediately!
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Code Project Job Board[^] is the more appropriate place to put job offers 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Hi,
please let me know what is the oppurtunity for a c# developer in freelance programming world.
I have 3+ years development experience.
Where do i start for freelancing?
Thanks and regards.
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have u ever heard of rentacoder
there are alot of other websites tailored for that purpose too
try googling it out
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Abdul Gafoor wrote: please let me know what is the oppurtunity for a c# developer in freelance programming world.
There is lots of opportunity
Abdul Gafoor wrote: I have 3+ years development experience.
I'd imagine that's perhaps not enough for you to do well outside of sites like rentacoder, where you can find lots of work, but only at very low rates of pay
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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I was informed on Friday that, because my current boss will be moving to a different unit in the company, I am now going to have my time split between my current unit and a second unit. This means I will now have two different bosses that I report to. Also, because they are directors of two different units I imagine that their goals will be different and I will be torn in both directions.
Anyone have experience with this? I'm thinking of a jumping ship, I've been somewhat unsatisfied lately anyway.
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