USB simplified - adding USB connectivity to applications with legacy serial connections. How to Think Like a Programmer: Part 1. This is the first of a three part series regarding how to think like a programmer. Writing code involves a mode of thinking that is foreign to most people. However, writing code is not a unique process. There is actually nothing very special about it. But most people are simply unequipped to think in the manner required of good programmers. That is not to say that they are unable to put together a piece of software.
Anyone with enough knowledge of the right libraries can glue together a piece of software that accomplishes some sort of goal, whether it be taking a list of URLs, fetching the results, and saving them to a specified file location, or maybe queries a database and displays the results in a particular way. One of the recent discussions on TechRepublic, "Has calculus enhanced your IT career? " One example of this is the passing of tabular data that is in a rigid format (such as the results of a SQL query) via XML. J.Ja. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich review. The next version of each smartphone's operating system is always the best. We impatiently wait for the latest and greatest firmware to come around, expecting it to liberate us from the shackles of last year's code and features that haven't shown up yet. This happens incessantly with Google's Android OS, and version 4.0 -- unveiled at this year's I/O conference in May -- is no different.
Known as Ice Cream Sandwich (referred to henceforth as ICS), the last word in the title indicates the merging of Gingerbread, the most recent phone platform, and Honeycomb, the version optimized for use on tablets. We knew this much, but were otherwise left with conjecture as to how the company planned to accomplish such a feat -- and what else the new iteration had in store. But now the time of reckoning is upon us, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- Android 4.0's mother ship -- is slowly spreading across the globe, its users being treated to this year's smartphone dessert. Table of Contents See all photos. The Programmer's Bill of Rights. It's unbelievable to me that a company would pay a developer $60-$100k in salary, yet cripple him or her with terrible working conditions and crusty hand-me-down hardware. This makes no business sense whatsoever.
And yet I see it all the time. It's shocking how many companies still don't provide software developers with the essential things they need to succeed. I propose we adopt a Programmer's Bill of Rights, protecting the rights of programmers by preventing companies from denying them the fundamentals they need to be successful. The few basic rights we're asking for are easy. Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice. If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer.
The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works. It took me about ten years and a lot of suffering to figure out some of this, starting from “fairly bright engineer with low self-confidence and zero practical knowledge of business.” I wouldn’t trust this as the definitive guide, but hopefully it will provide value over what your college Career Center isn’t telling you. 90% of programming jobs are in creating Line of Business software: Economics 101: the price for anything (including you) is a function of the supply of it and demand for it. “Read ad. There are many places to meet people.