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People say practicing and keeping up to date with the latest technologies makes you a good developer, but what are some lesser known practices you all can suggest for someone currently doing a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and wants to stand out in their Master's application abroad?
I've started writing technical articles on Medium, finding open source contributions (which I rarely find for beginner level and any suggestions would be appreciated) and doing coding challenges online. Is there anything else I should be focusing on?
you've got plenty of time. keep learning technologies you're interested in, do projects and develop your skills along the way I'd say. Participate in competitions if you can. Open source contribution is a pretty good step
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I'm looking for clarification -
The terms 'structured programming' and 'structured development approach' refer to different things. Is this correct?
My understanding is that 'structured programming' is programming which is clear and well set out, using subroutines and modules etc. to keep 'structure' in software. This is different to the 'structured software development approach' which refers to the methodology of completing the stages of development (defining the problem, planning, creating, testing and maintenance) sequentially and not starting one until the previous is finished.
I'm a student and need to have these terms clear. Am I on the right track? Are there any important details I'm missing?
Yes, you are on the right track, these are different things.
Both of these terms are very broad. All programming paradigms that have been in use during the last 50 years (procedural, object oriented, functional etc.) are structured. And I would also say that every development methodology (waterfall, v model, agile etc.) is also structured in some way. Of course there are different grades.
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"I would like to work on an XYZ fantastic project I have in my mind in
ABC programming language, but I do not feel that I have the knowledge required or that I
am anywhere near experienced enough to perform."
Do you think someone should work on a project (even if it is a small, personal one) and try to acquire skills and knowledge in the process, or he should not even start working on a project unless he has at least a respectable level of experience and knowledge?
No one is born with every thing. Whatever we learn is through our experience. If you keep on thinking that "i cannot do it", well, then you will never do it. If you have stackoverflow , google and confidence in yourself, go ahead. You can get help on anything from here. You will only learn something when you do a real project. Make mistakes and learn from them.
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I am involved in a project which is meant to eventually become open-source and have a code contributor community. Is there any "right" way of doing this and what should/can I expect?
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There's a pretty good book on this topic, Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel, which is available for free online or in dead tree form if you prefer to read it that way. It would be hard to expand much on it in a single answer. Every project will, of course, be different, so I'd recommend reading that book, and then asking more specific questions about your particular project; answers will depend on the language and platform you use, how active an open source community there already is in your area, what your business model is, and many other factors.
I would recommand using Github or Google Project Hosting (subversion/mercurial), and of course use social media network to promote the project helps too.
You can start something like this - http://wxwidgets.org/develop/
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Most succesful , and large open source projects seem to follow the Benevolent Dictator style organization. But I was wondering if there are any success stories with agile development in Open source. When refering to Open source I mean large net-community driven development, not established teams doing Open source under the same roof.
I think this is based on a misunderstanding. If you have a look at the Agile Manifesto, most open-source projects are "agile".
Few if any open source projects follow the exact practices of XP or SCRUM (etc), but then the environment is different.
I haven't really looked at the code, but I know the "Fitnesse" project uses pretty strict Agile development practices. In this case Bob Martin might be sort of a benevolent dictator who oversees the code, but they're using a lot of Agile practices like TDD, etc.
I'm not sure if they're using SCRUM specifically though.
http://fitnesse.org/
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my company is very LAMP based as of now, and my management had decided to send a hardware guy and a developer to this MLG workshop. From what I check online it's mostly MS trying to bundle up a whole lot of their stuff and try to sell it to us to solve our problems.
Plus the fact that most of what we use now are pretty much open source tech, LAMP, purchased 3rd party libraries.
So I feel this is more of a management thingy rather that what a developer should attend. Have any you guys attended this? Or is this is waste of time as far as a developer need is. If it's not then I would probably talk to my team lead who's more managerial like than me to attend :P
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Go there yourself. If you send managers there, MS could succeed in selling them stuff, and then you would be forced to use it.
... I'm confused why any of you would bother attending this when you're an Open Source LAMP shop. Is a switch being considered??