Re: advice for aspiring programmers?

From: jafar (jafar_at_fatcat.spam)
Date: 11/13/04


Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:09:57 +0100

I demand that on Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:29:28 -0800, Gianni Mariani may or
may not have written:

> Red Hammer wrote:
>> Hi, I don't know if this is off topic or not, but I am interested in hearing
>> from anybody who works in the industry as a c/c++ programmer who has some
>> advice for somebody who is hoping to start a career as a programmer. I have
>> just finished a science degree with a comp sci / info systems major and am
>> finding that generally speaking there is a sort of catch 22 in operation,
>> you can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience without
>> a job. Any advice or ideas would be very much appreciated....
>
> Open up the to power of the source !

True. The easiest way to get that experience is get involved with one or
more of the thousands of open source projects out there.

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