Here's a few of my thoughts First an experience for a PSU CS graduate. He could not and still can not write in a language of his choice a program that outputs the string "Hello World"
I hope this does not reflect the typical graduate and also hope the a potential hiring company knows. What are your skills out writhing software that - fits in a small code space ? - you know how to make code wiggle a voltage on an electrical wire ? As in make bit 5 of word 123 go low ? - and many more like that Go but a couple of the little < $20 single board computers that run Linux or Android. Learn to get time to do things that are real world, as in make an LED light up, or send a TCP/IP based wireless message that some one caused a PIR sensor to change state (Learn with PIR means). Oh yea .. we are taking C maybe C++ here. Why, there is going to be a lot and there is quite a bit now of need for remote wireless I/O, Not only the scary IOT stuff, but even without that there is a growing need for sensors and actuators to become smarter and wireless. Read up on what the manufacturing industry is up to, go find out how many sensors are in a chemical plant. Not interested in the real world ? Well that's not me so learn this weeks latest bloatware programming environment and join the crowd as in get in line. On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Michael C. Robinson < [email protected]> wrote: > I have a major problem, I'm a college grad in computer science with 0 > years of experience. That PSU allows this when granting a degree is > sad, but that's another issue for another time. Everything I can find > is for senior level people and a lot of the programming jobs require > .NET or some other Microsoft thing. Short of an internship, no college > graduate can have experience programming in a Linux or any other > environment professionally. How do you land a job in this market? With > Intel laying off so many senior level people, I cannot compete with the > talent out there. The tech industry in Oregon doesn't need college > graduates and doesn't seem to want them either. > > I'm thinking of volunteering somewhere, possibly at freegeek. Thing > is, I need coding experience. The only other thing I can think to do > is build a code repository and certify in Java. Don't know if there > are Python, C++, PHP, and Perl certifications that companies care > about. I'm looking at seasonal work in retail because I can't get a > computer job. That doesn't cut it, I worked too hard for a degree in > computer science to be shut out of the field. I need in, I'm too old > to wait: 1, 5, or 10 years longer for that first progamming job. I've > been job hunting for 2 years as it is. > > Interested in any good tips or advice people may have. I admit I'm > discouraged, but I'm not giving up. Giving up won't solve the problem > of being unable to land that first programming job. This isn't a > situation I want to deal with much longer, an entry level programming > job would be very welcome. Barring that, all I can think to do is > prove I have the experience necessary to function in a more senior > position. That's a heck of a place to start though. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
