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    Interview Study Guides For Software and Data Engineers

    Posted: 08 May 2019 08:06 AM PDT

    During my last round of technical interviews I decided to create a checklist of problems, videos and posts that would help me track my progress. I wanted to share that in case anyone out there could benefit from it as well! There are checklists as well as blog posts linked below!

    Also, feel free to reach out and ask me to add more problems, topics, etc. It would be great to continue growing these checklists, or maybe add extra sheets.

    The Software Engineer's interview study guide - checklist - post

    The Data Engineer's interview study guide - checklist - post

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    I did it! - First little program done.

    Posted: 08 May 2019 02:11 PM PDT

    Hi guys!

    I wanted to thank everyone for this sub and share a little bit of my story.

    I'm a sound engineer and last July I hurt my knee - I did as many shows as I could after the injury but about 3 weeks ago realized that my body simply cannot move gear anymore and that isn't going to change. If you can't move gear you can't work. I talked to the guys from my crew and told them they'd better find someone else for this season. That was really hard.

    I thought about going into studio recording but it's difficult to find consistent work and at 48 it'd be a pretty big risk to try to break in that way.

    So I looked around at what jobs are available and pay a living wage and landed on software developer. I'm not new to the software industry - I was a technical writer at one of the big companies in the early 2000s - but I am new to the developer path.

    Anyhow I started on my journey two weeks ago and last night I finished the first working sample of my first project.

    It's a simple rock, paper, scissors game in Python but it's my very own! I really enjoy the work and learning and solving problems so I'm excited to keep going.

    I've also had a lot of nagging doubts that I can go from rock, paper, scissors to a dev job and what happens when you are assigned something you can't solve or struggle to solve...I'm sure all the same doubts most people have.

    Oh and to everyone who said the key to learning is to pick a project - ANY PROJECT - and just do it, you are all 1000% correct. Not only was it way more fun, it forces you to really understand how things work.

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    Is Revature worth it?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 11:11 PM PDT

    There's a company called revature that pays people min wage to attend a 3 month coding bootcamp. You have to sign a two year contract saying you will work with the company after you finish bootcamp or pay $20,000. They promise to get you a entry level role in a random city after completion. I have a bachelors in business administration and have been acting in Los Angeles. Looking to move into software development. Should I go this route I'm 28?

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    Is Google API a must to use Google Maps for Android App?

    Posted: 09 May 2019 12:37 AM PDT

    I just found out the Google API needs credit card to register and the problem is being in a third world country there is no such thing as credit card or any other methods for online transaction.

    I am making an app that uses google map. This app (Android) is for my graduation project in Computer Science....but I found out about the Google API needing credit card just now.

    Am I screwed? Is there another way to use Google Map?

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    How can I come up with a software architecture?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 10:48 PM PDT

    So I'm very lost and confused on this. I'm thinking that I'm creating too many complications while trying to create a small program.

    I want to make slack bot that monitors github and eventually other platforms like facebook, instagram and twitter. I am trying to think of an architecture, but the reality is that I don't even know where to begin. How do I analyze this? How can I come up with a comprehensive architecture?

    Am I just overengineering here? Should I just start and worry about creating the architecture as I go?

    I'm just lost and not sure what to do.

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    Starting A Youtube Channel

    Posted: 08 May 2019 09:43 AM PDT

    Hey guys, myself and a friend are starting a Youtube channel that is dedicated to teaching programming and game development. I would say we are both experienced programmers and we both have a passion for teaching/mentoring. We have a pretty good idea as to what direction to take the channel but I thought it would be a good question to pose to beginner programmers, what sort of content would you like to see covered beyond just the basics? There are a lot of programming resources and channels available and they all vary in quality. Having said that, are there any topics or concepts that you struggle with which perhaps aren't covered very well (if at all). Any and all feedback is appreciated. Here are some of the concepts that we are thinking of covering:

    Beginner programming

    Game Development (Unity primariliy)

    OOP

    Design Patterns

    SOLID

    Most of the playlist will be in C# but if the channel gets popular, we may branch out into other languages

    -Joshmond

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    Selling my first PHP web app – how much do I charge?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 05:09 PM PDT

    I am planning on switching industries, from digital journalism to web development. Naturally, I started out learning the various basics through developing a web app that helps me with my freelance work in the newsroom (I am a freelance editor there, basically posting and reading on Facebook all day long – yes, it feels depressing, thank you for asking). The development took me a few months, but eventually it became a moderately polished project. After some colleagues saw me using it, the whole thing quickly snowballed and now the newsroom might be interested in actually buying my app for all the digital editors to use.

    TLDR of what it does: Basically, the app works as a distribution network for articles that get passed around between the various desks (each desk works on a different group of websites, but they all have a shared pool of articles about general politics, lifestyle, science and so on). With the app, each desk essentially gets their own set of dynamic article lists that work like fancy to-do-lists and the people producing the general topic stuff can push their articles onto all the lists and track who has posted what and who hasn't yet. Simple CRUD stuff, but it helps the workflow a lot.

    However, on the dev side, I am not quite there yet. Right now, the app only serves the desk I am working at, so it still needs some hours of development to actually work the way I described. Which puts me in an awkward position. I'm showing the tool to a project head editor in a few days. He will probably ask me how much money I want for it. And I don't know what to say, because there is different aspects from my perspective:

    1. Theoretical work hours: If I were to start the app again from zero, it would take me probably around three workdays to recreate it. That would put its price for the app as-is to something like 350 Euros. If I'm counting in all the work I still want to do on it before selling, it's probably closer to 500 Euros.
    2. Actual time spent: Three days is nothing compared to the months I worked on the app. However, I did use this project to learn HTML, CSS, PHP/SQL and a little bit of JS. I can't really charge them for all of that.
    3. Practical use for the newsroom: While testing the app during my own work shifts, I was able to nearly double my ouput on social media which translates to more clicks, more ads, more readers, more revenue. That would probably be a lot more than 350 Euros.
    4. I want to keep developing the app for them myself, not just sell it to them for their own web dev department to work with it. Would it be the best course of action to not sell the app itself, but rather sell them a license for using it? Maybe even host it myself instead of using the company servers and let them pay me for that as well? How much can I charge for a license/hosting solution like that? (Or is all of that simply too big of a project for someone just starting out?)

    Developing this has been so much fun, and I would like to keep doing it and get paid for it. I feel a bit dumb asking these kinds of questions. But I only learned about the coding side of things, I have no clue about the financial side. I could really use some input of someone with a little more knowledge of how these financial things usually work. Any constructive advice will be very much appreciated – thank you in advance.

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    Can I Jump Straight Into Native React?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 04:35 PM PDT

    Hello all,

    A quick question about Native React, how much preemptive knowledge of iOS/android development should I have going into this language?

    I am fairly new to programming, and only know the basics of C++, HTML, and CSS. I've never developed a mobile application before, but like the prospect of using Native React because I hear you can build apps that deploy on both android and iOS phones. Thanks for any advice you can offer!

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    Need theory to read about text editors and IDE

    Posted: 09 May 2019 01:09 AM PDT

    I am a beginner programmer. In order to improve my portfolio I've decided to write a little hobby project, an IDE. For this reason I need to learn some theory about text editors. Could you recommend me some books or articles on this subject? I tried to google, but cannot find anything. Thank you.

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    SFML for Visual Studio 2019?

    Posted: 09 May 2019 12:26 AM PDT

    Latest SFML is 17, and I'm not yet capable of building my own SFML. What to do?

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    What kind of people do best at code? Language-oriented people? Math-oriented people? Problem solvers?

    Posted: 09 May 2019 12:23 AM PDT

    I'm a *Very* language oriented person. I'm fluent in Korean and Japanese, I learned to read Kanji at a high level fairly quickly, and I teach English as a profession (here in Japan). I naturally do well with language, but I cannot do even simple math problems on paper. I've met a lot of people who are totally opposite. Outside of language I don't consider myself especially intelligent at all. Outside of language my memory is also quite bad.

    So I was curious, what type of people do you see learn code the fastest? I've started Python and was just wondering about this for curiosity's sake.

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    Looking for a simple graphics library for a project in c++ or calrification for graphics.h

    Posted: 09 May 2019 12:03 AM PDT

    Hi!

    I am working on a project, a small game, really, which would use both the console and a display window.

    I am looking for a simple graphics library that would let me do just that. A window of given size with single-pixel manipulation in colour.

    I have found a viable candidate, or rather two(!).

    graphics.h and graphics.h

    The problem? One graphics.h requires a directory path to some bgi file that I do not know or ever seen and I cannot find a tutorial that explains it. Anyway I haven't managed to make anything work. I also predict that this won't be viable for easy sharing as everybody will have their own path to the bgi thing.

    The swcond graphics.h is some sort of stanford library which seems simpler... but I only found the documentation and the header file and no actual library for download.

    Thank you in advance.

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    I’m a 21 yr old interested in taking the App Academy Bootcamp course and I have questions. Anyone who’ve went to app academy please help.

    Posted: 08 May 2019 11:01 PM PDT

    What do I need to do in order to prepare for the course? I've read that there are technical and non-technical interviews held before. I've also read that they give you problems that you need to solve in code. So how do I prepare for it exactly? What steps do I need to take? The course starts on July 1st and I want to prepare ASAP for this bootcamp course. I'm currently taking a beginners course in python. I have no coding experience and I've taken an interest upon it lately. I know the ones who graduated from app academy, there are some who have had no background knowledge of it and were in the same position as me. Please help and give advice and thank you.

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    How to remove unwanted objects from an image?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 10:51 PM PDT

    How does google remove their car from streetview? I was given an assignment to remove an imaging car from a streetview capture, without using an image editor, instead relying on pure programming. The problem is the car itself is half of the picture. The person who assigned the task suggested to use multiple images from behind and in front of the car, use parts of the pictures and stitch them together, but the problem is, there is so much distance between each picture taken, making it a nightmare since the angles do not add up(meaning that I would have to find a way to skew the images) and the image will be pretty much illegible, since it would need to be enlarged. My idea is to cut out the car, but that would result in an inaccurate image. I just need someone to explain what concepts that I should be using, plus what language might be best suited for the task. (including packages if possible)

    Example image:

    https://imgur.com/dqestqk

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    What were your favourite and most rewarding Projects?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 08:06 AM PDT

    Well, I'd really love to know what cool stuff you can make if you get good enough.

    What were your favourite projects? :)

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    React Hooks are super simple! Made a video with examples on the two most common hooks, to help you start using them (:

    Posted: 08 May 2019 10:44 PM PDT

    Hope this video helps out any React devs out there!

    Tried to keep it simple as possible and use examples.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzL_kSDgTOo

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    Twitter bot: preventing duplicate posts

    Posted: 08 May 2019 10:32 PM PDT

    Hi. building a Twitter bot in Python with tweepy that posts links to random hi-res images. I'm wondering what might be the best way to ensure I don't post the same image more than once?

    Two ways that came to mind are:

    1) searching through my tweets to make sure the image URL isn't in any past tweets (which seems slow/would run into page limits with the Twitter API).

    2) setup a small database, say using sqlite, that would keep record of all the URL's tweeted so far.

    Any suggestions?

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    subprocess.call with ffmpeg gives me no output and output says 1 in the shell

    Posted: 08 May 2019 06:25 PM PDT

     In [16]: command = "ffmpeg -ss 1 -i 58892311.wav -to 3 -c copy test_out.wav" In [17]: subprocess.call(command, shell=True) Out [17]: 1 

    I expect to see the file test_out.wav in my folder, and it should be the same as the input file except trimmed from the timestamps of 1s and 3s. I see no output file. The out put in iPython shell just says "1" and I have no idea what that means. All I know is that this didn't output a file. What have I done wrong here? This is literally what I was told to do from stackoverflow.

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    What happened to the game /r/learnprogramming was making?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 06:18 PM PDT

    There was a collaborative effort by this sub-reddit to make a web based game. What ever happened to that?

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    Is it a good idea to learn programming to create apps, or just pay someone else?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 09:34 PM PDT

    Im already 21, sometimes I get ideas for apps that I want to pursue as business.

    Do I study how to make apps or just hire someone to do it?

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    is it good to practise with my own challenges?

    Posted: 08 May 2019 04:36 AM PDT

    let's say i learned about interfaces, is it good to open my IDE and try to implement what i have learned and try to create small projects that uses that topic, because i really don't like those challenges available online because i have to do a lot of searches to find the topic i want, and most of them are not well written and English is not my language so it's hard to understand them which leads me to failure !

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    Adding a scaling factor to a 3D model to "zoom in"

    Posted: 08 May 2019 05:03 PM PDT

    I'm using a modified version of this code on an Arduino Uno and I'd like to scale the 3d model so that I can create a "zoom in" effect. If you look at the end of this video you'll be able to see the effect I'm trying to achieve. I'm sure there must be a really simple way to add in a dynamic scale factor to all of the vertices but I just can't see what it is or where and how to put it into this code. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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    Needing ideas of ways to complete my idea.

    Posted: 08 May 2019 08:34 PM PDT

    So, I am trying to make a form on my website that will automatically fill out an editable PDF and then email it to me. Anyone have any ideas about how to do this, if even possible?

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