On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 09:21:46 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice
programming-related job next year. I've never had a
programming job,
most of the paid work I ever did was physical work, such as
drilling
through bricks, rock, concrete, installing and repairing air
conditioners, installing central heating systems, lighting and
electrical work, and stuff like that.
I'm actually baffled to hear that someone of your caliber has
is not a professional programmer. Passion and theory alone will
only get you so far... (IMO).
So, I hope you land yourself that job.
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Andrej is like Matt Damon's character in "Good Will Hunting"
(hopefully without all the psychological issues). Good luck in
the job hunt.
I am sort of the Anti-Andrej. My big accomplishment for 2013 was
to complete my Ph.D. in Computer Science (after many years), but
I am actually not a fantastic programmer. My degree is in
'theoretical' computer science, a number of the profs in my
research group would likely have been happy to do all their work
with just paper and pencils. I kept asking my supervisor to let
me do some implementation project as part of my research, but he
kept answering "No, it will take too long". Finally, a reviewer
for one of our papers said the only way he would except it was if
we included 'experimental results'. So I got to implement
something, and of course I used D!
Considering I have a BES and M.Sc. in Geography, and no extensive
math background, I figure getting a Ph.D. in CS is a bit of a
coup on my part.
With that out of the way my goal for 2014 is to improve as a
programmer and hopefully start making some contributions to the D
community. I actually started making some small documentation
corrections to various D projects this past year, and want to
work my way up to something more substantial.
Congratulations to all the new parents out there.
Cheers,
Craig
