@NoMad no interview lol

@vintprox yeah, but even with Unity there’s still decent source control using cmdline and sourcetree.

Zero because I’m gay

You’re a developer. Get used to change.

@Benutzername I feel this is pretty common in the Dev world esp with those who are much more socially inept than usual.

@endor I don’t understand

@Jilano was hoping to be something more specific in terms of culture.

For my first internship, I had to write a simple function using an existing framework. A variable defined in the framework had a typo, so I did a massive refactor and pushed to master.

I learned a lot that day.

Cocaine makes me feel productive

Think of a project and stick with it.

Create a Pokémon database. Sounds easy but it’s quite challenging.

My advice is to reformat. Even running malwarebytes and all that, there’s still a slight risk of something else dormantly infected. Heck, even your router could be compromised through SSH.

@RememberMe most bootcamps I’ve seen are more for web dev, which discrete maths aren’t involved compared to the fields you’ve mentioned.

@programmer yeah but being an engineer is being able to adapt and be constantly learning. When I’m talking about skills, im not talking about concrete stuff like frameworks/languages but rather, the thinking process that that makes one an engineer.

When you’re already in CLI and wanna do a quick edit on a config file. I’d rather just do everything without having to move my mouse, find the txt file, open it, etc.

It seems trivial but all those movements add up to your day.

If one is able to work their way up to “Machine Learning Engineer”, they would be skilled enough to easily flex between varying fields/trends of software development.

Because it’s less about the syntax or whether you can compile it and more on how you structure your thinking process.

@VaderNT I dunno. Microsoft won a pretty huge military contract with the Pentagon.

Please expand on your specific experience with Windows dev that has made it easier compared mac?

@AlmondSauce as far as I’m concerned, software engineering/development is such a fast moving field. Even if the concepts you learned back then don’t see application, I don’t think it necessarily mean they’re useless - it’s the thinking process that matters and once you get that down, it can be applied all over.

If you’re going to say point 1 and 2 - could you explain why you believe this and what alternatives one should consider? “No it is not” without elaboration doesn’t contribute much.

For me the biggest problem I’ve had when i started programming was structuring my code. OOP/patterns really helped me organize things coherently and paint a large picture. I used to be overwhelmed with assignments until I took an architecture course and it helped me break things down.

Doing labs when working with 4-5 students, it helps immensely to have 1 person model software and then delegate who works on what. It takes some time on the beginning but as our code got larger near the end of the semester, it saved our asses VS other teams who had no structure/model and only 1 person could work in the codebase.

Pretty sure this is satirical, but at the same time it’s so exhausting seeing these kinds of posts on LinkedIn that is meant to the professional. It’s so inappropriate. Keep that on Facebook or something.

@12bitfloat I’ll definitely look into that in the future. Just a student working on labs and was given this as an option and it’s kind of baffling knowing large enterprises work with this.

@theunknownguy I’ve always struggled with hackathons. There seems to be two approches I’ve seen - those who are familiar with the tools who are there to refine their skills and those who are mostly there for the social aspect (been to too many hackathons in the beginning thinking it was a good way of learning new tools but spending 2 days learning how to setup an environment vs everyone else trying to actually do the challenge).

I think hackathons can be pretty useful, but only to those who are experienced with the existing toolsets and within a company, put aside time to create new tools.

@VaderNT that is a great analogy

@SIgInTheHead yeah this seems to be a good strategy too - sometimes learning from mistakes is the most efficient way of spotting better solutions. I guess it all depends on what aspect of the architecture one is working on, but I have felt some days that it would have been better to dive in and reiterate later

As someone who learned Java and then C#, I found C# VERY easy to pick up....so my advice would be to pick up Java because you hit two with one stone.

A significant other who picks up 3D modeling so they can create sample assets for them ;)

Not kidding. You’ll learn a skill for yourself AND it’s a gift for your BF. Win win.

Or you can buy him the game engine architecture book. I think it was written by the devs at Naughty Dog who are leading experts.

XPS...but if you can get the Pro, I’d suggest that. I personally really love the UX with MacOS. I have a windows PC and MBP and it’s nice having different platforms to work with, depending on my project.