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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. Re:how to get a job 101 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Girls are shallow. Even shallower than they accuse guys of being. There have even been links posted on /. to studies that show that no matter what women say, they care more about a guys looks than other factors. At least guys say, "I like big boobs," but girls don't want to say, unless there are no guys around, "I want a guy with buns of steel and nine inches." Guys admit to what turns them on, but girls don't. They pretend they want a "sensitive guy" who's intelligent and caring, but they'll walk all over any guy like that for a chance to date a hunk any day, then wonder why the hunk left them after sleeping with them a couple times.

    Women don't care if you're smart, if you care about what you do, if you're intelligent or if you're sensitive to them. They do care if you look good in a suit and can bench press more than your own weight.

    If you're a girl/woman who thinks differently, then that puts you into less than 1% of all the women out there.