A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
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Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#2Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
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#3Excellent how this problem is continuously attempted to be solved.
As a wannabe programmer, one thing I always lacked from these sites was the ability to somehow see my code live. I.e. it's fun to write html and css on codecademy or python from LPTHW or whatever but how on earth do I get it on the web or assembled into .app? In actuality, the complexity that surrounds DNS providers, server apps (or whatever you call filezilla etc), server providers (here i mean heroku, AWS, Cloudflare etc), those weird githubs and repos that people chat about etc etc, is way more deterring than actually learning what a "class" is.
Learning is fun; endless googling is not.
Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#4The site in question is http://exercism.io/
Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#5Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
these comments are always discouraging to me. i work in a different field (sysadmin), and i've been struggling to get a job programming. am i that bad at programming? or that bad at finding work?
i feel like i know the basics of several languages as well as html, css, sql and git. i wrote an IT-ticket system for a healthcare clinic in python consisting of a basic html form and a SQL database backend (i know this isn't terribly impressive to adept programmers, but i've been applying to the most entry-level programming positions). i also specialize in powershell, which is object-oriented, even if it isn't used for enterprise level web apps. and that hasn't been nearly enough to get a job, at least in pittsburgh.
Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#6Excellent how this problem is continuously attempted to be solved. As a wannabe programmer, one thing I always lacked from these sites was the ability to somehow see my code live. I.e. it's fun to write html and css on codecademy or python from LPTHW or whatever but how on earth do I get it on the web or assembled into .app? In actuality, the complexity that surrounds DNS providers, server apps (or whatever you call…
There are some fairly easy ways to get some code up if you go for the easiest solutions. eg web2py/pythonanywhere.com for Python, http://www.appgyver.com/ for javascript/phonegap apps
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#7I've had fun doing the haskell challenges. I really like the peer review aspect of it and the git style terminal submissions. But these are just small practice problems and are not geared towards "Teaching you to code well enough to get a job". It's just one of many helpful ways to learn the ins and outs of a particular language.
Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#8Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
these comments are always discouraging to me. i work in a different field (sysadmin), and i've been struggling to get a job programming. am i that bad at programming? or that bad at finding work? i feel like i know the basics of several languages as well as html, css, sql and git. i wrote an IT-ticket system for a healthcare clinic in python consisting of a basic html form and a SQL database backend (i know this isn'…
None of the languages you listed are technically programming languages (I guess PowerShell could be considered one, but it's more for automation rather than programming actual applications). Maybe you're using the wrong terminology during your interviews.
Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#9Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
these comments are always discouraging to me. i work in a different field (sysadmin), and i've been struggling to get a job programming. am i that bad at programming? or that bad at finding work? i feel like i know the basics of several languages as well as html, css, sql and git. i wrote an IT-ticket system for a healthcare clinic in python consisting of a basic html form and a SQL database backend (i know this isn'…
Soft skills are more important than tech skills, especially at entry level. It usually becomes pretty apparent in the interview whether someone is capable of problem solving or not; the interviews conducted for my department are purely to see if the candidate is a cultural fit. We don't even do technical interviews, though occasionally we'll do a code challenge to separate two very close candidates.
My point here is that you should take a look at your personal presentation and see if there's anything you can tweak to improve your interview performance.
Re: A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job
#10Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
these comments are always discouraging to me. i work in a different field (sysadmin), and i've been struggling to get a job programming. am i that bad at programming? or that bad at finding work? i feel like i know the basics of several languages as well as html, css, sql and git. i wrote an IT-ticket system for a healthcare clinic in python consisting of a basic html form and a SQL database backend (i know this isn'…
Full disclosure, I just graduated and really don't know anything of value yet BUT imho building things that are functional and working outside of your dev environment should have more of an influence on your job prospects than the stupid coding exercises.