Too old for coding

cbrunsdonza said:
Well that's your problem, your attitude. I would kick you out of an interview with that comment and make sure you would not be allowed to interview for the janitor position.

In the last decade I've never had my age, gender or race work against me or even be mentioned in an interview.

I've been offered jobs based on my personality and attitude. My first attempt at working for my current employer failed because at that stage I was not what they where looking for, 2 years later I got another chance and got a better job from them.
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Attitude? Really... that it fact. It is difficult to get work in SA as a older white male. Been told before even though I scored the best in pre assessment tests and heard AA, BEE position...
And what planet are you from that you think I'm going to say that in an interview...
 
freddster said:
Attitude? Really... that it fact. It is difficult to get work in SA as a older white male. Been told before even though I scored the best in pre assessment tests and heard AA, BEE position...
And what planet are you from that you think I'm going to say that in an interview...
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Yup, it depends on the company that you are applying for. Some places don't give a damn, others have to follow by the book because of the contracts they supply.
 
"The tech industry depicted in movies and tech blogs is that of young 20 or even 17 year olds who started coding at 6 years old and are now doing cool startups, raising MILLIONS, and getting sold to Yahoo or Google or Facebook for BILLIONS!"

There's just no crossing the skill chasm as a software developer. You've either got it, or you don't. No amount of putting your nose to the grindstone will change that. To truly become a good developer, you have to to cultivate passion for everything else that goes on around the programming. Learn about your users. Learn about the industry. Learn about your business.
 
MeroD said:
"The tech industry depicted in movies and tech blogs is that of young 20 or even 17 year olds who started coding at 6 years old and are now doing cool startups, raising MILLIONS, and getting sold to Yahoo or Google or Facebook for BILLIONS!"

There's just no crossing the skill chasm as a software developer. You've either got it, or you don't. No amount of putting your nose to the grindstone will change that. To truly become a good developer, you have to to cultivate passion for everything else that goes on around the programming. Learn about your users. Learn about the industry. Learn about your business.
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It's a developed skill requiring a certain type of aptitude. As with anything if you have the aptitude, practice makes perfect.
 
I just matriculated. I love I.T, but damn, object orientated programming. I hate it. We did java.

Only programming I can stand is html, css
 
static_sa said:
I just matriculated. I love I.T, but damn, object orientated programming. I hate it. We did java.

Only programming I can stand is html, css
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I prefer object orientated programming over HTML/CSS :p
But they are for different uses, always use the language/tool best suited for what you are trying to achieve, if it's a website use HTML/CSS/JS rather than C#.
 
well you have no choice, the browser isnt going to render c#......
 
Johnatan56 said:
I prefer object orientated programming over HTML/CSS :p
But they are for different uses, always use the language/tool best suited for what you are trying to achieve, if it's a website use HTML/CSS/JS rather than C#.
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these days, you'll probably need those because of web development, and almost everything and everyone wants web development so in addition to C#s, Java you're going to need HTML, CSS and JS...
 
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