Salut, For me, experience is the thing. For good experience, you could always get involved in an open source project. Find something you're interested in (no matter what language), download it, compile it and raise some bugs and, if you can, fix them. But even raising bugs is a valuable service to an open source project.
Also, can I second what Mark said about source code management systems. I've worked with developers who don't understand branching, and frankly, they can be a liability. Understand how and when you should branch. The best way to learn is to use it, even for your personal work. Download git and use it. Don't worry about not knowing everything. You can't know everything, and people won't expect you to. But they will expect you to be able to find out stuff, so concentrate of being able to learn and find out information. Google is your friend. Finally, if there is a JUG near to you, go to it and meet people. Matthew. 2011/4/4 TL <[email protected]>: > I am a 47 year old who has jumped into programing after years of > totally unrelated work. I have a good few courses out of the way and > I've done well.Next semester im doing java 2 ,database,assembly > language, and computer intern. Considering I am a fossil of sorts I am > looking for guidence as to what I should be focusing on. Any thoughts > would be greatly appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
