Timeline for Can I use my powers for good?
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| Jan 8, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | Michael | Same here: educated in Math, working in software industry (EDA). | |
| May 26, 2013 at 5:23 | comment | added | Olivier Lalonde | W3Schools.com is filled with inaccurate information. See w3fools.com. I would instead recommend buying a book or codecademy.com / alternativeto.net/software/codecademy. | |
| Oct 15, 2011 at 9:07 | comment | added | Hafiz | @Flounderer hey programming is easy, you will just find first programming language a little bit tough and then it will be easy, I will also suggest you python. So you want to know that which book is better? Any one, you are new comer , so I guess you get some thing from any book only thing require is don't stop once you start.Go to python.org and there are many resources, free tutorials and recommended books so hang with it. Or if want to do web programming then goto w3schools.com/php after installing xampp. Or for any other learning you can also check lynda.com | |
| Oct 13, 2011 at 20:20 | comment | added | Flounderer | may I ask which books you used? I have been learning some Python recently and using it to do a few calculations, but my knowledge is very basic and I'd like to develop my programming further. | |
| Oct 13, 2011 at 14:17 | comment | added | Paradox | A close friend who also had a PhD left academia for software engineering almost immediately after graduation; his STEM field required an enormous amount of FORTRAN programming, so it was an easy move for him. He began at once to persuade me to leave academia as well, and he finally succeeded. A few handshakes later, and I had a job waiting at the end of the semester. I took the time that semester which would normally have been devoted to research, and instead purchased two How To programming books and a compiler, and taught myself enough about the craft to get started in the new career. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 20:56 | comment | added | Flounderer | Thanks! I like your answer. My problem is that whenever I ask people how they got into software engineering, it turns out that they already knew many programming languages before they applied for jobs, and I really struggle with programming. Could you perhaps give some more details of how you switched fields? | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 15:17 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Zev Chonoles | ||
| Oct 12, 2011 at 14:19 | history | answered | Paradox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |