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Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer?

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-hear-google-needs-people dept.

LuckyLefty01 writes "I'm 21, going to college, and working part time doing odd jobs like math tutoring. In the past nine months or so, I've discovered and taken to programming (so far mostly C/C++/Obj-C). I am now looking seriously at something in this area as an eventual full time job. Since I don't have much scheduled this coming summer, it would be great to try to get a job of some sort at a tech-related company in order to get some practical experience in the field. Even if I don't have the background to get a job involving actual programming, I think that the knowledge of how such a company works would be valuable. Fortunately, I live in the SF Bay Area, so there should be plenty of companies around. I'm flexible about what I'm going to be doing, and very willing to learn just about anything anybody cares to teach me. If there's some (or even quite a bit of) boring grunt work involved, I can do that too. What type of job would benefit an aspiring but inexperienced programmer the most? What methods might I use to find such a job?"

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  1. I've got #3 figured out for you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) post to Slashdot
    2) ????
    3) Get a Job
    4) Profit.

    I suspect step 3 might be recursive, though.

  2. Re:how to get a job 101 by spazdor · · Score: 5, Funny

    No way. You sound like a total player who will just use me for my superior programming skills and irresistible body. I'm not just some enormous slab of brains and meat, you know.

    I have feelings.

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    DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
  3. Re:how to get a job 101 by psychodelicacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I'm not just some enormous slab of brains and meat, you know."

    Oh. You mean you're one of those small, weedy guys? Fine - don't wanna have coffee with you in that case.

    **sulks**

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    A closed mouth gathers no foot.
  4. Re:how to get a job 101 by beav007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    People obsessed over their own (and usually, others) appearance forgetting all about verbal communication or keeping up with news making it impossible to keep up smalltalk.
    I find that, while conversing with females, that Smalltalk has its place, as long as Java is involved. That said, Ruby and Perl are very effective. You can try Python, but that will often do more bad than good.