Re: a question relating to job application

You'll need some experience. One good way to get some is to contribute
to open-source projects.

Lots and lots of experience and reading is a prerequisite to creating
complex and quality programs. However neither education nor experience
is necessary to get programming jobs. The programming field is unlike
professions, were for example if you want to be a buildings engineer
there is standard accreditation, or if you want to be a lawyer there is
a bar exam.

It is true that large companies' IT and R&D departments have rigorous
interviews for programmers, but there are plenty of jobs where you can
progarm without experience or eduction:
1) large company's business side (plenty of excel macros&VB)
2) a very small company that doesn't have many hiring options
3) you can apply to be a manager in the R&D or IT department of a
large company

Opalinski
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