Thread: Advice

I think you'd deffo need to come up with some kind of experience that would set you aside from the herd. It could be as simple as maintaining a blog for your projects, explaining your thought processes and detailing the nature of the problems you will face. As a bonus, you'll find that doing this will accelerate your learning.

Some people might say join an open source project... that would be premature in your case. The major projects are just too extensive and have coding rules, etc. Work through some simple programs on your own first and see how you go.

Originally Posted by SMurf

Some people might say join an open source project...

I've been considering that myself, for a while... but can it really help much when looking for a job ?
I mean, most companies are pretty much advocates of closed source software, wouldn't they scoff at someone from an open source project looking for a job there?

(I understand that there is much satisfaction and knowledge gain... so I'll participate in future, when I think I'm ready.)

Originally Posted by manasij7479

I've been considering that myself, for a while... but can it really help much when looking for a job ?
I mean, most companies are pretty much advocates of closed source software, wouldn't they scoff at someone from an open source project looking for a job there?

My experience has been quite opposite. Sure, the company's direct products may be closed source, but my previous two jobs and my current job rely extensively on OSS. Linux servers, embedded Linux, LAMP/LAPP stack, OSS libraries and utilities, databases, etc. Maybe this is less true in industries like video game programming, but for many companies OSS is the way to go.