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Modis - "Talk to a Coding Professional" - Three Live Chats!

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So what is this?
 
This is not one... not two... but THREE opportunities to do a LIVE Q&A session with coding professionals - Gregg Pollack, Alyssa Nicoll, and Carlos Souza of Code School. Linus has connected with them briefly and we think these stream will be very interesting for folks looking to get into coding, as well as folks who are already in it, but might be looking for their next steps or a bit of a change of pace.

 
These great opportunities are being brought to you by Modis, a leader in the IT staffing industry! If you haven't seen our previous Modis livestream with Dan Pollock, we would highly recommend checking that out: http://youtu.be/UXf6RE9fn8Y. And be sure to check out their 2015 salary guide while you're at it!  http://www.modis.com/clients/salary-guide/
 
The three half hour live Q&A sessions will be held on October 9, 2014 at 11am Pacific time, October 23, 2014 at 11am Pacific time, and November 6, 2014 at 11am Pacific time.
 

Click these links to find out what time the streams are in your time zone:
October 9
October 23
November 6

 

ARCHIVES:

Gregg Pollack: http://blog.modis.com/code-school/code-school-giveaway-1/

Alyssa Nicoll: http://blog.modis.com/code-school/code-school-giveaway-2/

Carlos Souza: http://blog.modis.com/code-school/code-school-giveaway-3/
 
We have a few topics that we will definitely cover, but like all of our live streams, these will be interactive and we really want to see you guys post your questions here as well as hit us on Twitter during the stream with anything you want to know about. We'll be working hard to make these streams as educational and entertaining as possible!
 
And, as an added bonus, FIVE posts from this thread will be randomly selected to win one of these five awesome programming books:

Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) by Tom DeMarco
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Sandi Metz
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

 

The winners of these books have been chosen and are as follows:

 

[member=xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt] Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

[member=JoeyDM] JoeyDM passed on the book, new winner is Ghost The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt

[member=bradscoolio] Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition) by Tom DeMarco

[member=origx36] Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Sandi Metz

[member=Igenatius] Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

 

Enjoy your new books! Each of the winners will be contacted by me through a PM.

 
 
All three streams will be live at http://twitch.tv/linustech, but don't worry if you can't make it - Modis will be hosting all three archives over on their YouTube channel, http://youtube.com/modis.

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Text colour formatting... xC

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Sweet! 

 

Will definitely tune in for this.

 

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Interesting, I'll see if I can make it :)

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Nice, this looks interesting. Definitely going to check it out.

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On the actual topic if the thread, I intend to study computer science/software development at university next year, so my question would be: what are your favourite programming languages? And how long did it take to learn enough to be of practical use?

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@nicklmg can you change the color to automatic please? Night users would really appreciate it.

 

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Text colour formatting... xC

 

 

Please change to colour to automatic Nick, some of us on the night theme would like to read it.

Why not apply a custom stylesheet to default to a lighter colour? Or is it everyone elses job to make sure you can read posts?

 

 

That salary guide is clearly some sort of marketing bullshit.

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Why not apply a custom stylesheet to default to a lighter colour? Or is it everyone elses job to make sure you can read posts?

 

 

That salary guide is clearly some sort of marketing bullshit.

I happen to be on an iPad, so I can't use any of the custom add-ons right now so far as I know.

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Why not apply a custom stylesheet to default to a lighter colour? Or is it everyone elses job to make sure you can read posts?

 

 

That salary guide is clearly some sort of marketing bullshit.

Why should each individual have to do that when all the poster has to do is click "automatic" when they copy paste something from somewhere else?

 

I'm using day theme btw.

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Why should each individual have to do that when all the poster has to do is click "automatic" when they copy paste something from somewhere else?

 

I'm using day theme btw.

 

 

I happen to be on an iPad, so I can't use any of the custom add-ons right now so far as I know.

You are the ones that switched to the non-default theme. Nobody should have to accommodate for your poor choice of theme.

 

If you really want someone to complain to why not complain to the person that designed the theme with such an obvious flaw?

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You are the ones that switched to the non-default theme. Nobody should have to accommodate for your poor choice of theme.

 

If you really want someone to complain to why not complain to the person that designed the theme with such an obvious flaw?

I'm using day... Night is an option... All somebody has to do is make sure it is checked to automatic when they copy paste something from somewhere else. 2 clicks for the original poster. That's it.

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You are the ones that switched to the non-default theme. Nobody should have to accommodate for your poor choice of theme.

 

If you really want someone to complain to why not complain to the person that designed the theme with such an obvious flaw?

I'm using day... Night is an option... All somebody has to do is make sure it is checked to automatic when they copy paste something from somewhere else. 2 clicks for the original poster. That's it.

Guys please keep the conversation on topic. OP has been fixed.

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As someone looking to study Computer Science at university soon, and hopefully get a job involving programming etc later on, what would you suggest doing now to prepare?

 

Also, of all the times and days you could pick, that's one combination that's awkward for me :(

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As someone looking to study Computer Science at university soon, and hopefully get a job involving programming etc later on, what would you suggest doing now to prepare?

 

Also, of all the times and days you could pick, that's one combination that's awkward for me :(

Make sure that you know Computer Science is about computation/computing and not about computers.

 

if you want a programming job you should do a programming course/degree instead.

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Hopefully I'll be able to watch atleast one stream. 

 

Now for my question:

What's your favorite programming joke?

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What languages do most employers look for?

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the native one for your country and ofc English.....

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C++, html, SQL, Java, c# and python I'm sure, it depends on the job ofc.

I actually heard C was one of the two or three most important. I know roughly myself, it was just something for them to talk about on the stream.

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I actually heard C was one of the two or three most important. I know roughly myself, it was just something for them to talk about on the stream.

oh, facepalm. Ofc..its a Q&A.... How stupid of me..

Back on topic:

my question is: which language is there favorite, and why.

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2 in the morning for me... looks like no chance of watching the live show.

 

anyway, my question: which is the programming language that is used most often by companies?

been hearing it is C# but how true is it?

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I'm going to have to watch this. Hopefully I don't have school :P

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What languages do most employers look for?

C++, Java and PHP are probably the biggest earners.

Python, Bash, etc. are essential for system admins.

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As someone looking to switch career paths completely away from anything computer related maybe this will spark interest for me again.

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