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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

For every programming language, there’s a community surrounding it, making certain languages better suited for certain industries. Java and.NET, for example, are more enterprise-focused, giving them a more professional and formal tone. Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

University-level courses, tutorials, cheat sheets, and coding communities all offer excellent ways to pick up a new language, and maybe even a new job, too. University of Michigan : From the University of Michigan, you’ll get access to great programming courses including Computer Vision and Internet History, Technology, and Security.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Transformify has ranked the skills possessed by young people from Kenya who have joined the CSR recruitment platform in the last 18 months.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

One example I’ve seen is when someone executes an exercise in code and they forget a basic function of a list in Java, for instance, which is something you should remember as essential. So the average entrepreneur’s biggest sell is to get a developer plugged into a different “internet of people” than Google can.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

As a result, internet entrepreneurs should prioritize privacy above everything else. I believe it will encourage growth in areas such as the internet of things, smart homes, virtual reality, augmented reality, health care, media, cloud services, and other areas, resulting in huge business prospects in a variety of industries.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

of your product, and get criticism and suggestions from the blogosphere, press, enter into internet culture, foster a user community, and things change again… That’s complicated stuff that has to be done fast. A great platform to consider is the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.