Thread: Who here programs for a living?

i make 5.50 an hour and i work only during summers...

Originally posted by fastmonkey
Someone mentioned that I should start building projects that do specific tasks and put them in a digital portofolio. What kind of projects? Would old school projects like the infinit integer work? I'm sure you all have done that one though...

Again thanks.

I wouldn't use old school projects if your projects were like mine (ie: very simplistic and screamed "school project"). Of course, I never finished my degree so maybe you've written more complex programs than what I did back in the day (man, I sound old now! hehe).
Think about a company you'd like to work for then consider a problem they might face and write a program that solves it. One thing you might do is something like this (this is a description of an actual program that I wrote at the request of one of our VP's):

a bot that periodically scans all server volumes for any files ending with specific extensions (which were contained in a simple little custom built database file) and records the location and filename to a log file, deletes the offending file and emails the final log file to the VP. He then has our senior Network Supervisor scan the log and compile a list of offenders (gathered by location, which was usually their user directory on the main file server) and then the VP calls the offenders managers. The offensive files you ask? anything ending with extensions like *.jpg, *.avi, *.mp3, *.mpg, etc. (ie: fun files).

not anything too complicated but it solved a simple problem.

There aren't engough good programmers in Germany.

Some are good, but they are not from Germany, like me!!!

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I'm working at several projects and I earn money

And for a 16 year old teenager, it is a lot for such simple
programming stuff

and I earn only 5%-10% of the money, a company would earn with their work!!!