I'm interested in taking
this Coursera course on data science but the description states that "You will need basic programming experience with Java or Python, and some familiarity with databases." I do not have this. How could I get it, preferably online?
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posted by foxy_hedgehog
on Mar 5, 2013 -
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I'm hoping to find short (2 month-ish to 6 month-ish) full-time, in-person programs that teach practical computer programming skills (Ruby, Python, iOS, PHP, R, Matlab, etc.)
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posted by carolinaherrera
on Mar 4, 2013 -
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Sometimes, I am a front-end web developer. Frequently, I meet new people at work who want to turn really complicated Excel documents into dazzlingly interactive web applications.
Besides
Excel's "Save to Web App" or "Save to SharePoint" features, such people ask if I can tap into an industry to support this -- perhaps scads of agencies and web-based or downloadable tools that make "websites" or at least customizable, interactive reports from Excel spreadsheets, data, and calculations.
I'm yet to find this an abundance of examples of this. Are there? If so, what do you call them?
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posted by metajc
on Jan 9, 2013 -
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How do I design a personal website/web portfolio that will dazzle, amaze, or at least intrigue everyone from professional web developers to non-technical senior level types outside the field and convince them that I do indeed, have the skills to pay the bills.
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posted by Seiten Taisei
on Jul 8, 2012 -
5 answers
What are some good programming challenges that encourage the use of Object Oriented programming?
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posted by mccarty.tim
on Oct 27, 2011 -
17 answers
How much should I get paid as an inexperienced programmer doing Java web development for a US government contractor? I’m clueless.
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posted by anonymous
on May 17, 2011 -
10 answers
Programming Filter: I'm applying for software jobs, but I don't want to forget what I know. How should I practice to keep my skills sharp?
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posted by Chicken Boolean
on Oct 21, 2010 -
22 answers
How do you go about when you look for a part-time entry-level software developer job?
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posted by RaDeuX
on Aug 31, 2010 -
11 answers
How hard would it be for me to write a simple chat room program, that could be used at work for people in my dept to talk to each other? I realize I could probably just download something (like Google Talk, for example), but I'd like to learn to program and this seems like it would be a simple enough project to start with.
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posted by cottonswab
on Feb 3, 2010 -
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I'm teaching myself to program. I learned the basics with Ruby on Rails, and I'm now coding in Python and Javascript, but I want to try an Android app, and that requires that I use Java. Going from Ruby to Python to Javascript was relatively painless, but I feel like I'm starting all over looking at Java code. Does anyone have any tips for going from scripted languages to Java? Or any really great tutorials for getting started in Java? Or any great tutorials for beginning programmers for Android?
posted by empath
on Jan 25, 2010 -
13 answers
How do you respond to a dude who says that python ain't _really_ a multithreading language, and you should write it in Java- and you really think that's wrong?
posted by xmutex
on Sep 14, 2009 -
24 answers
Is there a reliable, not-too-expensive hosting company out there that lets you post server scripts in most open-source languages?
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posted by grumblebee
on Jun 5, 2009 -
11 answers
Help me choose between Python and Java for a specific type of programming.
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posted by eebs
on Mar 20, 2009 -
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I'm working on what I think will be a GUI application and need some advise on framework friendly with Macintosh OS X, that won't drive me crazy. (Long description of what I've looked at inside.)
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posted by KirkJobSluder
on Apr 16, 2007 -
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Programming languages: I'd like to take up programming as a hobby, with an eye towards evaluating it as a career choice. What language should I learn? [more inside].
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posted by gd779
on Aug 13, 2004 -
27 answers
If you were writing a new p2p application -- leaving ethical and legal issues aside for a moment -- which programming language would you use? I know Visual Basic and PHP, but neither is really any good for this purpose. I dislike things that require the user to install a big VM (.NET, Java) and find C++ a complete nightmare.
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posted by reklaw
on Jun 2, 2004 -
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I have been looking at changing my web development focus from Windows/ASP/.NET to LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) because my gut is telling me that this is where things are going. Oh, Java should be in there as well.
What's the skinny on LAMP in the real world (Netcraft
surveys aside)? Is it difficult to change to LAMP/Java? Is the open source thing really sticking?
posted by grefo
on Jan 9, 2004 -
14 answers
