Thread: How to stand out as a Junior Developer to get your first developer job?

How to stand out as a Junior Developer to get your first developer job? (medium.com)

L 1 pts 3 comments by pushcx May 28, 2017 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

"I hired a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app, this was my experience" (thenextweb.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by journeysquid Nov 4, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

Four Things Our Developers Wished They Knew On Their First Day (quickleft.com)

L 1 pts 1 comments by fluxusfrequency Oct 28, 2015 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog)

L 24 pts 21 comments by quobit Jun 16, 2017 jobpractices Productivity / Career / Business thread

as written in the Conclusions section: "So… this is certainly a surprising result, one that I didn’t expect to find when I started exploring the data. And it is impressively robust even when controlling for many confounding factors. As an exercise I tried controlling for many other confounding fa...

Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com)

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Advice for a Junior Software Developer (beza1e1.tuxen.de)

L 11 pts 7 comments by qznc Oct 20, 2018 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Hiring & Managing Junior Developers - How Farming Made Me a Better Engineering Manager (linkedin.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by frigginglorious May 22, 2019 personpractices Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Guide to Enjoy your First Developer Job (medium.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by mehdi-farsi Sep 3, 2019 jobprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

How to Hire Junior Developers (ryanbigg.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by pushcx Oct 16, 2019 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Common Mistakes in Junior Developer Resumes (cvcompiler.com)

L -4 pts 0 comments by AndrewSt Jan 6, 2020 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

How To Find Your First Client As A Freelance Software Developer in 2020 (habr.com)

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A consequence of being the first to adopt a standard is that you may end up being the only one to adopt it: The sad story of Korean jamo (devblogs.microsoft.com)

L 38 pts 11 comments by calvin Oct 9, 2020 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Death of the Junior Developer (sourcegraph.com)

L 0 pts 5 comments by jaywhy13 Jun 27, 2024 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Job Hunting as a Junior Developer in Japan (tokyodev.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by Liriel Sep 4, 2024 Programming (General) thread

How to land your first developer job (developer.mozilla.org)

HN 1 pts 1 comments by danielskogly Nov 1, 2024 Programming (General) thread

Ask HN: Any advice to get my first job as junior fullstack dev?

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AI Limits: How Junior Developers Can Thrive by Understanding AI's Limits (practicalsecurity.substack.com)

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Job Interview Questions for Embedded Systems Developers (windriver.com)

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It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard! ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog (hacks.mozilla.org)

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Questions to ask your future web dev employer (medium.com)

L 6 pts 2 comments by edward May 21, 2013 jobpracticesprogrammingweb Web Development Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

GHC (the standard Haskell compiler) gets first class iOS support (groups.google.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by rbxbx Aug 29, 2013 compilershaskellios Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming Languages / CS Theory Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Developers: Autoworkers of our generation (blog.baugues.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by journeysquid Sep 2, 2013 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Worthy of discussion, but easily disagreed with (myself included).

Why Your Startup Can't Find Developers (fastcolabs.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Sep 27, 2013 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

How to get your first 10 customers (danshipper.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Oct 7, 2013 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread

Front-end Job Listings (github.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by bevacqua Nov 6, 2013 jobweb Web Development Productivity / Career / Business thread

"Become An iOS Developer In 8 Weeks": The Truth About Hack Schools (fastcompany.com)

L 4 pts 8 comments by tedu Dec 18, 2013 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Landing a job in Europe for (Indian) foreigners (valbonneconsulting.wordpress.com)

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Application Architecture for Developers (rkn.io)

L -1 pts 1 comments by rkneufeld Feb 21, 2014 bookdesignpractices Design / UX / Visualization Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering (neverworkintheory.org)

L 1 pts 0 comments by rz Apr 2, 2014 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help (eff.org)

L 16 pts 0 comments by GrayGnome Apr 16, 2014 joblawweb Web Development Productivity / Career / Business thread