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More Coders. More Diversity.

Feld Thoughts

Techtonic Academy provides underprivileged youth, minorities, women, and veterans both technical training and mentorship to become entry-level software engineers and pursue a career in the technology field. I think many software developers share that sentiment. The post More Coders. I learned to code doing it on the job.”

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

Will we ever see "Peak Software Developer"? There are a few "app builders" out there for mobile, enabling anyone to create a basic content driven mobile application without touching code. What will the advancement of such platforms do to the skill requirements for developers going forward?

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How To Hire A Developer For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

To find your ideal team you need to take care in advance of the developer’s high qualification: read the reviews, watch the coder portfolio (there should be projects like yours in them), and try to consider organizing the work of freelancers so that their work complements each other and works as a single mechanism.

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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San Antonio-based Assembla Buys MyGet

SiliconHills

Assembla, a software development platform based in San Antonio, has announced plans to acquire MyGet, a software management company, based in Belgium. Assembla, founded in 2005 and acquired by Scaleworks in 2016, is a software as a service company that sells a platform that allows coders […].

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The Code is your Enemy

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this also produces a natural weakness , and when I look at what made me a successful entrepreneur — not just a great coder — it’s that I acknowledged and overcame that weakness. If not, solving that is much harder and much more outside your control than building software. The weakness is your love of creation.

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Hail The March Of The Citizen Coder

YoungUpstarts

Can we afford to wait for the rise of these coders to attend the workforce? Therein lies the need for the citizen coder. Self-taught and digitally native, the citizen coder is a symbol of 21st century success and a ready-made solution to a yawning skills gap. There are plenty of precedents for this kind of platform approach.

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