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Software Engineering / Re : Multiple Programming Languages or Problem Solving

« on: November 04, 2017, 12:10:07 AM »

I guess not. Most of the contests are about mathematical problem solving. And most of the industry jobs don't need you to solve mathematical problems. They don't care if you can "check if a number is prime or not" or "print the value of pi after 40th decimal point". As a matter of fact they almost care about nothing as long as you can do the job.

Every interview board will ask you :
Why should we take you instead of anyone else ? What have you got that they don't ? Why are you "Special" ?

So you should prepare for a reply of this question. If you ever face a interview board that don't ask you this , it's not an interview board at all.

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Software Engineering / Re: Multiple Programming Languages or Problem Solving

« on: November 02, 2017, 09:02:13 PM »

I think everyone has a favorite programming language, the one that he feels comfortable with. I always see posters workshop on this , training on that... The fact is that students practice those things only while the training/workshop is on as a result some months later they forget most of the things they learn. Had there been a club that deals with only one programming language like only C or only Java or only Python the students who were in that club would be on the run and could stay updated about it. I may be wrong but I as far as I know there is no such club.

If I open a workshop titled "Java For Beginners", only those people who have little or no knowledge of Java would join it. Who have done high level programming in Java would not go near it.

If I open a workshop titled "High Level Programming In Ruby" most people could not join it because it requires basic Ruby knowledge which they don't have.

But as club is not for a limited time like 1 month and not for any particular level of programmers like beginner or advanced, people of all levels who are passionate about it would join , teach and learn.

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Software Engineering / Re : Multiple Programming Languages or Problem Solving

« on: November 02, 2017, 04:18:22 PM »

I just want to tell a short story. Once a friend of mine was learning C from a book. He quickly finished the first chapter and went to exercises. The first chapter doesn't cover anything of loop but tells the reader to print a pyramid. Without having any concept of loop he printed a star pyramid. One day he showed me his code :

printf("*");
printf("**");
printf("***");
printf("****");
printf("*****");

So it is also very important that the resources you follow are good enough to guide you and not send you on the wrong track.