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Currently joining Discord servers for software developers/engineers, and I know there are a few of you on CE so here's a thread, too.

Take that! and don't forget a semicolon, the compiler won't recognize that your statement is over otherwise

Presently doing a Udemy course in JUnit/Mockito/MockMVC. Nothing complicated, I just never really learned to do unit testing for myself.

Fuck off useful person

That is the nicest compliment I have been paid in awhile.

(if I was actually useful, I'd work a job that actually allows me to put the software development skills I do have to use.)

DaveTheUseless posted...

Take that! and don't forget a semicolon, the compiler won't recognize that your statement is over otherwise

this is why I like kotlin, really got used to not using semicolons over my past year of learning it

anyway I started a new dev job last week after getting laid off a couple months ago. Liking it so far

Where do I stand as a former software engineer who is leaving the field ;(

Butterfiles posted...

Where do I stand as a former software engineer who is leaving the field ;(

still k00l in my book bruh

did you find a field of work that interested you more and/or paid the bills better

Getting myself back to looking at Rust

Butterfiles posted...

Where do I stand as a former software engineer who is leaving the field ;(

What are you planning to do?

I do ruby, haml, JavaScript (es6 where possible, stimulus for conveniences), and sass/scss

plot twist.. TC is ChatGPT.

I'm a senior software engineer / team lead. I mostly manage around these days and my coding has lowered considerably.

I've been in it for 10 years but I'm sick of programming. Don't know what else I'd do though.

my interests in Comp Sci have switched up a lot over the years. i have a grad degree in cybersecurity but i got bored to death of it

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I mostly manage around these days and my coding has lowered considerably.

I'm also trending that way, and I have mixed feelings about it

I've never been a really strong coder so I'm okay with this. I'm much more of a people person so this seems to be working out. My team hits almost all our targets every bi weekly sprint so I got it down to a fine science at this point

Sounds like a sexy worklife ngl

DaveTheUseless posted...

I'm also trending that way, and I have mixed feelings about it

Seems like thats the software dev career path

either you move up to management and stop coding, or find a different job to get a raise

myself Im not sure if Ill ever want to manage. Im only ~4 years into my career at this point tho

Yeah I hit 10 years February. I'm over coding and projects at this point. Getting the requirements and getting the documentation and process going is getting to be very fulfilling

I could probably make close to double my current salary if I tested the waters, but I've been guilt tripped a lot by my employer and unless I do something really stupid I'm fire-proof.

DaveTheUseless posted...

I could probably make close to double my current salary if I tested the waters, but I've been guilt tripped a lot by my employer and unless I do something really stupid I'm fire-proof.

Maybe Im jaded having just been laid off, but I feel like a significant raise is worth way more than job security

I think part of the reason I was selected to be let go is I had expressed my dissatisfaction over a lack of raise (that I had been told I would get)

It took me 2 months to find a new role but Im making so much more now that Ill still make more this calendar year than I would have if I had not only stayed at my previous job but also gotten the raise I wanted.

I started reading Express in Action yesterday.

The longer I am in this field, the grumpier I get. Unfortunately I am presently working on a old vb project that I desperately want to strangle and convert to c# and dotnet core

There's a CE programming discord but it's kinda dead. Forgot who was the owner is on CE (their Discord name is Dagger).

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Hardest part is getting started, but I can't blame anyone for being so annoyed by how challenging it initially is that they stop there. I had given up for years.

I just did some front-end shit that would've taken me hours to do before in a few minutes of work, and I had fun doing it. Good times.

The dream is still to get into game development eventually

Still been working on my project in Unity every day, making slow progress but every step is still progress, or learning something new

gotta remind myself that I have 30+ years of work ahead of me, theres no rush to do anything

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Id also keep in mind that a big part of learning to code is actually learning how to learn how to code

you're never going to know everything, and youre going to spend a lot of time even deep into your career reading documentation, googling, and learning new things

Rexdragon125 posted...

I've been in it for 10 years but I'm sick of programming. Don't know what else I'd do though.

Think of a research field that might interest you and see if there are data science jobs in that field.

Programming is a lot more engaging if you are doing it for a meaningful cause like cancer or public health research.

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The initial learning curve can be steep but it gets way better after a few months of your first language. It's like learning to drive different cars at that point. Like every car is going to handle differently but knowing traffic laws stay with you forever.

Shadow_Don posted...

Think of a research field that might interest you and see if there are data science jobs in that field.

Programming is a lot more engaging if you are doing it for a meaningful cause like cancer or public health research.

this is definitely not one size fits all advice lol

i personally definitely have no interest in working on something with the high stakes of public health

remains to be seen of course but I am totally okay staying in fun fields like consumer products, luxury items and apps, etc

TheGoldenEel posted...

Id also keep in mind that a big part of learning to code is actually learning how to learn how to code

Truth. I took a high-end Java video course and wrote out a bunch of notes on Panera receipts and kept studying it again and again, and commenting code with all sorts of stuff. The pieces began falling into place once my brain adjusted.

The most important thing is, never listen to the software engineering advice from CE.

TheGoldenEel posted...

this is definitely not one size fits all advice lol

Definitely not advice for everyone, was just a suggestion.

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I mean yea you have to be consistent. You won't really get in shape by exercising on and off either.

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Easy, most of it is terrible.

And more importantly, gamefaqs doesn't readily make working on code collaboratively easy.

It's easier to join a proper discord or slack.

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Something I've learned is that with high level concepts notes help me out big time, even though I never re-consult them other than just after I write them. It helps reinforce the concepts, get me to meditate on the logic of things, etc.

With smaller concepts, notes can actually slow me down, so I play it course-by-course, video-by-video, etc. If I'm just jotting things down without really understanding, I'll make sure to put a freeze on my course or whatever I'm doing and just keep thinking it over and consulting other resources until it makes sense to me. Doesn't necessarily have to be a perfect understanding, but of what I'm doing in principle. Can then reinforce with other videos/articles/projects/etc.

Coming up on 8 years as a game AI programmer, love the job although it is certainly a stressful industry to work in.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Maybe Im jaded having just been laid off, but I feel like a significant raise is worth way more than job security

I've thought about what it would take for me to make a change, and it'd have to be a dream job scenario. 90-100% remote, full stack development, absence of workplace politics, etc.

sellerdore posted...

Coming up on 8 years as a game AI programmer

Oooh, nice. Had a lot of interest in that over the years. Was put off a bit in undergrad studies. Like someone else mentioned, making a small game was always an interest.

Also looking into using raylib

kyujo posted...

Oooh, nice. Had a lot of interest in that over the years. Was put off a bit in undergrad studies. Like someone else mentioned, making a small game was always an interest.

Unity and Unreal are free to use if you ever get the itch! they each have a marketplace for assets if you don't particularly care about learning how to model/animate.

Unreal's Blueprint scripting system in particular is a pretty intuitive way to get started with game scripting/event-based logic flow etc. But it's been a while since I've used either, so I'm not sure what their online support/documentation's like these days.

Public static void main, injected right into my veins.

DaveTheUseless posted...

Public static void main, injected right into my veins.

i love how they spent years teaching us java through high school and most of undergrad cs, only to never use it again in postgrad cs or the industry

DaveTheUseless posted...

Currently joining Discord servers for software developers/engineers, and I know there are a few of you on CE so here's a thread, too.

Take that! and don't forget a semicolon, the compiler won't recognize that your statement is over otherwise

Presently doing a Udemy course in JUnit/Mockito/MockMVC. Nothing complicated, I just never really learned to do unit testing for myself.

You can't call yourself an engineer without an engineering degree haha kidding, I love to see those flame wars though

Butterfiles posted...

Where do I stand as a former software engineer who is leaving the field ;(

what are u gonna do now?