What education do u need to become a computer programmer?
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Experience, even if it is on your own is some of the best education that you can receive.\n\nYour degree or diploma can get you the job, but your knowledge of programming will get you the promotions and the interesting work.\n\nI strongly recommend taking a course in "algorithms" - searching, sorting, algorithm complexity and the like. You will be a far better programmer for having taken it.
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To be a computer software engineer you will need a BSc degree in computer science which takes about 4 years to complete. How much money you need will vary widely depending on what school and what country you go to. For example, MIT is going to be a lot more expensive that your local state university. If you go to another country you will have to pay international student tuition fees. I'm going to put a guess on $60,000 (that works out to about $5000 a semester). You can make it cheaper by completing the first two years at a 2 year college and transferring those credits to a 4 year college or university.
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Greetings,\n\nI am about to graduate from Purdue University this May with a degree in computer technology.  Being surrounded by both Computer Science and Computer Engineering however, I can assure you that, between the two of these, computer engineering would be the way to go.\n\nBe aware that the two of these are vastly different.  Make sure your interests lie in a spot that fits.  Computer science will delve into complex algorithms, operating systems, compilers, and an actual science to developing computer programs.  Computer engineering will look at the physical limitations of computer hardware and you will learn more about the "computer guts".  Again, make sure your interests lie accordingly (I mean, I can see from your question that English certainly isn't a favorite subject of yours, so consider the plan of study for each hehe)\n\nIt will be easier for you to make more money with computer engineering.  Unless you're coming from a great school, a computer science degree is starting to be worth less and less;  all those jobs are being shipped overseas.\n\nGood luck.
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to be a good programmer you need to work hard. you have to practise a lot, allow yurself to think of solutions to problems, think of yourself as a problem solver and it will work great for you. Extensive research also will be very helpful.\nGOOD LUCK!!!!
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Getting a degree in programming would be ideal, but you can be self-taught as well.  Most programming positions that you apply for will almost always request a portfolio of the past work you have done.  I believe it is this that determines whether or not you get the job.
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Computer Web programming or Geek Patrol degrees.
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Go for it! I majored in computer science (and yeah, I was 1 of like 4 girls in my whole school who did the same thing). When I was in high school, I didn't know very much about computers at all. Here's how to go about it:\n\nAs a freshman, start off taking an introductory programming class and a seminar class on different computer science topics (you just go and listen to people lecture about their work). If you enjoy your programming class, try to get a summer internship or research fellowship at a company where you can get some experience programming. As a sophomore, take a more advanced programming class and maybe a compiler class. You can follow the classes outlined at your school for earning a B.S. degree in Computer Science. There are many areas you can focus on. I did computational and neural systems (aka artificial intelligence), but I also did some coursework on computer graphics. \n\nIf you have free time, start doing your own projects now! You can buy a domain name and set up a blog. Once you have that running, learn how to set up a RSS feed for it. Maybe download some Yahoo! widgets and run through the Yahoo! widgets tutorial at http://widgets.yahoo.com/workshop/ to see if you can build your own. There are tons of people online that you can ask if you have questions, so just try it out and see how it goes!\n\nOnce you get out of school, you can do loads of interesting work! Want to program the next Finding Nemo movie at Pixar? Or build Playstation 4 at Sony? Maybe you could build the next generation of Yahoo! Answers. ;)
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It depends on what you want to do.\nIf you want to go in industry working on large industrial application, probably you should go withprimarily Java and with C++.\nIf you like to built desktop app, C++ will be best. To go to gaming industry you should have good knowledge on grphics programming.\n\nIf you want to go in serverside, you will need knowledge on php, Sql, C++ and some Unix experience.\n\nAnd at last but not at least, if you want to be website designer, HTML,Javascript, AJAX and Flash.
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to be a good programmer u need \n\ngood conceptual knowledge in which language u know...\nlogical thinking...\neasy approach to solve the problem\npatience\nadjusting mentality with ur collegues(this is due to the internal politics)
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To be a good programmer what you need most is a craetive mind.\nThis is must. And good ability to solve problem, and symplify a complex problem in several small part. The later ability means you have to be good at mathmetics.\nIf you want to be a web programmer creativity is more important while if you want to built complex software your mathmetical ability( not knowledge) is more important.
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To become a software developer first you need to understand the basics of programming/devopment. There are many development languages such as Microsoft Visual C++, VB, Sun's Java, IBM's Mainframe etc are available in the current market. \nOne needs to gain enough knowledge about the software and can develop his own system by programming.\n\nTo become a web developer currently Java is in full-form. Java's enterprise edition J2EE is one of the most promising tools for the development. Microsoft's C#, VB.net and VC++ dot net are also good tools.
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If u r from Computer background, it will be very easy to learn programming languages to u. u will have to firstly build up programming logic which can be done some preliminary languages like BASIC. The main thing is about any programming language is logic or we can say concept. once u will expert in developing logic it will be very easy to u to inplement ur logic in any computer language. Now a days OOP(Object oriented programming) concept is becoming more popular than other procedural concept. So try to thinks some real world problems. u can begin with C++ to build up ur logic. try to solve any problem with more then one way. GOOD LUCK
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WoW!!!! You will be some programmer!!!\n\nTry http://sourceforge.net/ or http://freshmeat.net/ and find it yourself.
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There are a lot. Do you just want to take single classes, or complete a certificate or degree program? Is it for personal enrichment, or do you hope to be able to use it to advance your career? And what sorts of computer courses are you talking about? Do you want to learn Microsoft Excel, or do you want to learn computer science?
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you would have to learn programming first.
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frankly - you don't need to take either of those. \n\nhowever if you are more focussed on becoming a hacker, then choose the major that has MAXIMUM PROGRAMMING involved. \n\nhere's a useful link that'll get u started\nhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#respect1
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Study networking, server side scripting, then basic courses of C++ and java.