StackOverflow & Programmers

One good way to keep yourself updated specially if you are out of university is reading and writing as much code as possible. Two excellent sites I usually peek daily are http://stackoverflow.com/ & http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ which are websites featuring questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. So basically the sites feature the ability for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a wiki fashion. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions.

They are very useful, addictive, and you can get very professional answers from amazing programmers. Many of them work for the most important companies in the software industry (i.e Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle ..) have incredible curriculums and probably some of them have been involved in the development of many of your favorite applications.

Today I was a bit concerned about what managers and team leaders expect from Junior Programmers (yes.. I’m starting in 2 Weeks yay!!) and received really good advices from some of them. I think it's always good to hear different perspectives other than your owns and even better when they come from such a group of talented people..

If you are interested to read them here’s the link of the post and some of the answers. They are all really great, I still need to go through all of them to finally decide which answer to accept.

Link: Which skills would you expect and appreciate in a Junior Software Engineer??

So don’t wait and get advantage of it, start asking them for advices in how to improve your code or simply spend some time reading some of the posts; These sites are completely free and I can guarantee you will never stop learning and getting surprise of some people’s knowledge..