Join this group and ask the question himself.
(I know others will give more useful advice)
On 18 Jan 2012 11:16, "Robert Muwanga" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I have a colleague who is working but wants to shift his career towards
> software development. Even though he did do computer science degree and
> loved programming, he kinda side-stepped from that career. He still does
> programming though, but not really full-fledged development, just like
> solving those programming competition problems from time to time, nothing
> full-fledged so he still has relatively strong programming skills but not
> necessarily development skills.
> What he wants to do is take it to the next level. A lot of people say
> "read books", "watch those MIT videos", etc., which honestly is all well
> and good, but nothing beats hands-on, group development (part-time, or slow
> paced at least for now), which is very well enshrined in the open source
> community. To cut a long story short, he wants to get onto such a project
> but doesn't know where to start or how to get on-board, and, like I said,
> his programming is relatively good but he doesn't know how to use
> development tools like debuggers or software repositories like
> git/subversion.
> So, if we take him as a beginning and budding developer, what advise can
> you give to such an individual?
>
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