Sergey, Junior Programmer<\/em><\/p>\nChildhood<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
What is the most fun activity during a programmer's childhood, especially before the internet?<\/p>\n
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I had two: dismantling all the games from the disc '800 Games in Russian' using all the programs from the disc 'Everything a Hacker Needs,' and rewriting all the games that I spent more than 10 hours on, from scratch in BASIC. It doesn't matter what comes out\u2014 even if it turns out something like that.<\/p>\n
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You take it, try it, swap blocks around, experiment, and reach for everything that can be reached. You wipe Windows, spend 10 hours installing it back. You try to restore the drivers. You figure out how DOS works. You understand how jumpers should be set so that your hard drive will start up in your friend's computer (there are 200 megabytes of new games!). You tinker with software, you tinker with hardware, you take apart and assemble computers. You write a football simulator for 13 years, in the end.<\/p>\n
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When there\u2019s nothing, you become happy from that.<\/p>\n
One must not underestimate the importance of self-checking. In my opinion, beginners in IT underestimate how strictly they will need to control their product (also in analytics) and how much time it takes compared to the purely creative part. And the more interesting what you are doing, the harder and longer the checking will be.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This is certainly a somewhat abstract piece of advice, but if only I had known it from the start.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And I do not recommend fixating on one direction in IT. Here, too, broad perspective matters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Anna, Senior Systems Analyst<\/em><\/p>\nHigh School<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
At one point on the forum of a provincial town P, programming was discussed - and there appeared a thread titled \"A large company is looking for PHP developers.\" The text of the announcement was as follows:<\/p>\n
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A large company is looking for PHP developers:\n\nTo determine whether you should come for an interview, complete a simple task: write a program in PHP that finds positive integers x, y, and z such that x^5 + y^5 = z^5. (^ - exponent).\n\nYou can respond here.<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Only a few people posted in this thread - I was one of them. With all my sixteen-year-old naivety, I replied:<\/p>\n
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Really, something strange. And you need a pretty powerful computer to find this...\nBecause no such numbers exist for x, y, z <= 1000 - that's the first thing (I knocked it out in VB, nothing more has been done yet), and secondly, the computer freezes completely.\n\nIt's strange that there's nothing, IMHO.<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Yes, a setup, a trap for newcomers, yes, a troll, and so what. Obviously, I spent some time on a simple script, but completely forgot about Fermat's theorem - which the thread's author, the respectable The_Kid, clarified at the very end.<\/p>\n
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The outcome is sad - in P there are practically no people who know mathematics, yet every second person believes himself to be a great programmer. Over three hours, on all the forums where I posted the message, there were around two hundred views in total... and only two correct answers. And Fermat's theorem is a school-level topic, and its conditions are so simple that they should be obvious. By the way, in parallel, when surveyed in ICQ, 6 out of 6 acquainted university students from Novosibirsk answered, \"This is Fermat's theorem.\"\nSo who to hire after this?<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
At that time, it sparked a storm of indignation in me: \"If I didn't write about Fermat's theorem, it doesn't mean I don't know it,\" - a classic excuse. Am I sad about it now? No, it's also a lesson for life. Just like when my game was featured in the Indonesian Windows Phone Store, and two weeks later it was removed because I didn't update some EULA conditions.<\/p>\n
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And it is entirely unclear: if in one large company there is no one to hire - then what should one be? What to do? Where to grow?<\/p>\n
Don't assume that once you receive an education, you will become a programmer\/tax consultant\/mathematician or anything else. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The time has come when fundamental subjects (mathematics, physics, computer science, philosophy) in a diploma become significantly more important than applied ones (programming, design in specific fields, etc.). Higher education has begun to split into layers \u2013 basic (engineering) and applied. One should study not specific skills, but thinking, the scientific approach, understanding how to solve problems, and soft skills. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This is about university. There will still be a lifetime to develop applied skills.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Oleg, lead systems analyst<\/em><\/p>\nUniversity<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
You write code in C++, you write code in Java. You touch assembler, pull your hand away, get caught up in Qt, and wonder why this is happening to you. By the fourth year, everyone becomes indifferent to what you write your next important labs in\u2014professors look at the code in a haphazard manner. <\/p>\n
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This isn't everywhere, of course\u2014there are universities where the education is strong and effective, but they accept students who solved ACM problems in school, squeezed everything out of graph theory in additional classes, and memorized how much memory all existing algorithms in the world require.<\/p>\n
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I didn't do that, I didn't attend extra classes, but just finished my studies in my math class, meanwhile doing interesting things. Spoiler alert\u2014at interviews, they will be of no use to anyone.<\/p>\n
First, it's better to determine what you like in IT. If you like all directions, it will be difficult. Learning a programming language\u2014<\/em> will lead nowhere, it will just create confusion later on.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Yan, financial monitoring specialist<\/em><\/p>\nA true story\u2014thanks to a Windows simulator made with a friend in 10th grade, you can automatically get a few exams and credits in university. You can even tell everyone later how cool it was. The problem is, it wasn't cool\u2014that was a convoluted architecture, terrible code, and a complete lack of any standards whatsoever. <\/p>\n
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Such things should be done with one purpose\u2014to create your own catalog of pitfalls. Although this won't protect you from imposter syndrome when you find yourself in a big company with some superficial knowledge about everything, thinking that you will be exposed at any moment.<\/p>\n
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I support this; it\u2019s more important to help with advice on what to do and where to find information than the opposite. It\u2019s also completely okay if he starts by exploring things himself. <\/em>\u2014 The understanding will come later. What matters is that he enjoys it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Eric, Test Engineer<\/em><\/p>\nWe all write development plans \u2014 what we need to study, what to focus on in the near future, and how to improve ourselves. But it seems we would all benefit from writing a letter to our past selves \u2014 here\u2019s mine.<\/p>\n
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\nTake some time, find a book, and actually install that Ubuntu distribution that you got for free from Canonical. There\u2019s clearly a simple problem; Ubuntu works everywhere. And Linux will be very useful to you.<\/li>\n Don\u2019t be afraid of the console. Volkov Commander can fit on a single floppy disk, but try to understand why you need all these commands; get comfortable with the command line. Floppy disks will die. Discs will die. Flash drives will die too. Don\u2019t worry too much.<\/li>\n Read up on algorithms, understand sorting, trees, and heaps. Read books. <\/li>\n To grasp the basics, you don\u2019t need paid courses. Soon YouTube will come along \u2014 you\u2019ll be surprised.<\/li>\n Don\u2019t get stuck on BASIC. There are hundreds of technologies in the world worthy of your attention, and a million things that are more interesting than yet another attempt to draw user forms in Excel. Try Python at least \u2014 you\u2019ll figure out the rest.<\/li>\n Learn to use Git, back up all your source code. Write at least one client-server application to understand how they work. Get to know networks, switches, and routers.<\/li>\n And if you are reading this now, it means it\u2019s all worth it. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\nShare in the comments what you would write to your past self. Suggest something to current school students and students who are at a crossroads and trying to find their way. Let\u2019s talk about it.<\/p>\n
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