Any programmers here...?

Dj_Jestar said:
Other than it's a VB programmers job (:p) go for it. And yes, put down that you have had a "personal interest in programming", and "are/have been participating and contributing to open source projects for the past 3 years and counting" ;)
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Thanks again for that. You are obvioulsy a C++ God? :p

Posting on coding forums = open source, quite good never thought of it like that..
 
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Dj_Jestar said:
Smalltalk, not C++ :p

and yes, posting solutions to other peoples problems counts as contributing, well at least it is in a lot of peoples eyes. :)
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So in a standard day how much coding would you get done, are you building new designer apps for your office workers or are you debugging already written applications, i mean honestly what application hasn't already been written, there are millions of applications out there, this is where i am lacking in knowledge...?
 
We write bespoke software. We (all developers) are the ultimate problem solvers. Customers/Clients come to us, tell us of their business woes and we develop systems to fix that problem, or to at least automate the process.

Even the most basic of developers will end up providing at least a small bit of business consultancy to most customers. I'm yet to meet a customer that actually has a completely clear idea of what they are seeking, and it is my job to see they find their way.. by providing software that makes problems, bottlenecks, wastage come to light.

We use Scrum (a flavour of Agile) development to deliver functional software every sprint (usually 2 weeks) that the client has asked for. We don't necessarily argue with the customer of what they want, we let them have it, then they can see for themselves if it is what they truly wanted.

Every client we have had thus far have had new software from scratch, BUT we have reused classes, libraries, etc. from older apps, but every client needs something that will be unique to them.

The days of writing software that does everything under the sun is gone. Finely tuned and tailored software is the now. :)
 
Dj_Jestar said:
We write bespoke software. We (all developers) are the ultimate problem solvers. Customers/Clients come to us, tell us of their business woes and we develop systems to fix that problem, or to at least automate the process.

Even the most basic of developers will end up providing at least a small bit of business consultancy to most customers. I'm yet to meet a customer that actually has a completely clear idea of what they are seeking, and it is my job to see they find their way.. by providing software that makes problems, bottlenecks, wastage come to light.

We use Scrum (a flavour of Agile) development to deliver functional software every sprint (usually 2 weeks) that the client has asked for. We don't necessarily argue with the customer of what they want, we let them have it, then they can see for themselves if it is what they truly wanted.

Every client we have had thus far have had new software from scratch, BUT we have reused classes, libraries, etc. from older apps, but every client needs something that will be unique to them.

The days of writing software that does everything under the sun is gone. Finely tuned and tailored software is the now. :)
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Hmmm interesting, so can you give a specific example of software that one of your customers has asked for ....? :D:D

Also what would you think about a few guys getting together and setting up their own business possibly starting off based at home, offering software solutions in their chosen languages, could do some light advertising and see if we get any offers, you would have to declare all the legal and financial business side of things to the inland revenue of course as you would be starting a business but is it viable to have amatuer coders set up like this?
 
Learning Java in 6th form at the moment in preparation for Uni. Very interesting course, and not as hard as many people may think.

Only been doing it for about 3 months, and can already create simple, useful programs to calculate maths problems, store/manipulate information etc :)
 
rz30 said:
Should i put on my CV that i have been an amatuer prorgammer for about 3 years and i daily answer questions on a certain programming forum....or is this a bit naff?

Take this job for example, this looks ok to me, part of it is that they want their VB6 code ported to VB.NET, which would be an ideal job, just plough away at it, and you could do some at home as well...... Would they say to yuo , "ok here are 1000's lines of VB6 go and chaneg that to VB.NET" ?

Or would you have to sit down in a team for hours on end discussing what would be the best aproach to go about it etc etc, flow charts, system diagrams, OO, TTD...

It says experience with VB6, not commerical which i have...

What worries me though is that i may not fit into the team system, i tend to be quite independent and work best when i have the freedom to do what i think is best....
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I think the second approach is much more likely, at the end of the day there will be a business that will be paying for you to convert their VB6 system to .NET. They wouldn't do this unless they could get some benefit out of doing it, so it likely won't be just a case of convert it straight to .NET, there will probably be some enhancements along the way too (The IT management will most likely have sold it by saying that the enhancements can be done easier if they move to .NET or something along those lines) so there will be analysis of these too.

As a junior developer you probably won't have much freedom to do what you think is best either, there will be a lead developer/arhchitect/analyst/someone who will have laid down the way to do things.
Obviously as you become more experienced and a proper part of the team you will get more freedom, but don't expect it straight away.

In bigger companies you will probably have a technical design authority who dictate the company's way of doing things for all development teams, so even at the levek above you they wouldn't be able to do their own thing.
In a small software house you would probably have a lot more autonomy and freedom though, so it all depends on the company.
 
Hah, another Scrummer!

We use Scrum here too (4 week sprints) to deliver systems to the business.

I'd go the 'open source' route, but be prepared to give out specific details and urls for what work you have done.

The offer still stands of a code review if you have a sample piece of code/app that you have written...just to let you know if you are as hood as you think you are...the one thing you need to get right is just how to pitch your skills...too low and you'll be bored, too high and you'll be found out (potentially) or made to look an idiot in an interview (this happened to me a while ago and it still grates to this day.
 
Mr^B said:
Hah, another Scrummer!

We use Scrum here too (4 week sprints) to deliver systems to the business.

I'd go the 'open source' route, but be prepared to give out specific details and urls for what work you have done.

The offer still stands of a code review if you have a sample piece of code/app that you have written...just to let you know if you are as hood as you think you are...the one thing you need to get right is just how to pitch your skills...too low and you'll be bored, too high and you'll be found out (potentially) or made to look an idiot in an interview (this happened to me a while ago and it still grates to this day.
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Ok thanks, i will post some over the weekend, so watch this space, VB6 and VB.NET!
 
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