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How do I get a job as a superprogrammer?

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2006-08-05 14:58:12, Category: Programming & Design
I want to get one of the good programming jobs, and they require a lot more than the basics as far as API memorization and so on. I know Java, I know C, C++, but I haven't up to this point made much of an effort to memorize APIs. How should I start? I don't believe in memorizing APIs either, per se, but the jobs out here say they want people who have done that. The questions they ask are of the sort that the only way you can answer them is to have the apis memorized.

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  1. nicomp

    On 2006-08-05 16:24:18


    Look at www.topcoder.com. You can get excellent experience in algorithm development, design, debugging, and implementation. And it's all free. You might even make a dollar or two. Don't memorize API calls. If you want to memorize anything, study the object models of the languages and tools that you are expert in. I've been teaching programming for 15 years and I've never asked a student to 'memorize' anything.

  2. LuisAtYourService

    On 2006-08-05 15:10:38


    Well, you just don't need to know anything more.... JUST GO TO www.rentacoder.com, that's a good freelancer site on which you will be able to get any programming proyect with your programming skillls..

  3. Arkangyle

    On 2006-08-05 15:42:57


    A good programmer doesn't "memorize" APIs ... or languages ... or anything of that nature. Those things are intangible and change rapidly in a technology driven field. Consider the changes in programming during the previous 10 or 15 years. Concentrate on the important things ... understanding the principles of good programming ... keep up with changes in the field at the theoretical model-level and other education. If an API requires you to know more than you can rapidly get from a manual or quick computer-aided lookup ... then it's not an API worth using.