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If you don't start with the professional tooling, you may have good fun, but nobody will hire you. When I entered the industry 20 years ago, "software developme
by bluetomcat 3y ago
If you don't start with the professional tooling, you may have good fun, but nobody will hire you. When I entered the industry 20 years ago, "software development" generally meant desktop application development (Visual C++, Delphi) and "server-side web development" (PHP talking to MySQL, spitting out HTML). By just knowing how to upload files to an FTP server, you could do your own address book application or CD catalogue, and get hired.
Now you need to fool non-technical people into demonstrating "industry" knowledge of a specific combination of Tool A/B/C.
- mbork_pl 3y ago> If you don't start with the professional tooling, you may have good fun, but nobody will hire you. You're right, though some people want to learn to program to either have fun, or to make simple tools for themselves (see e.g. the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423; disclaimer: I only read a small fragment, but it seemed very interesting)
- sim7c00 3y agotoo right. i am too bored with modern tools and frameworks hence i do not work as a programmer. i wish i could, but i cant get interested in it. not knowing modern tools and frameworks directly makes me unhireable. i always ask people who want to learn. do you want to learn programming, or want to be a programmer? (the later implying hirablility)
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