IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

As far as text editors go I really like Sublime Text.

Noodleface said:

I noticed recently that my vscode can now shift click on functions and they'll bring you to the definition (forget what that features called). Not sure if that's a new feature or if it's always been there, but it was never working in vscode before for me

Only thing I wish they'd update is their file search is garbage. I wish it would open a new tab with the results rather than that tiny sidebar. The code I'm working on is 10s of thousands of files

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Pretty sure you can just have it show you a subset of the files? Like for the folder you're in it will only show you the contents of that one folder and the parent. If that's too big just add a few more folders to make it manageable?

Find definition is always just highlight and press F12 in Visual Studo. Has been for as long as I've used it which is like 9 years now I guess? Do you use ReSharper?

TJT said:

I use VSCode mostly these days. Most other devs I know absolutely swear by IntelliJ.

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Intellij is titsssssssssss. Love it for all things Java/kotlin.

For basic html, css, js I use vscode.

For angular I've been using webstorm.

Kuro said:

So how fucked would I be if I tried to get into coding/it stuff at 34? Too old/late? I know C++ and XML from personal projects, but I assume that's basically baby-shit at this point.

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If you're good at logic or willing to figure it out that's really all it takes.

I think the youth factor is to be up and up on the constantly changing tool/framework landscape. Which isn't as important as some make it out to be imo.

Any angular people here?

Have a SPA and want to only change part of the page when user clicks something. Like create new object button click makes a form appear in the center of the page.

What's the best way to route this without hashing out the same HTML/css templates in each component? I'm sure this is a basic routing question. Just trying to think of how to structure this.

Kuro said:

So how fucked would I be if I tried to get into coding/it stuff at 34? Too old/late? I know C++ and XML from personal projects, but I assume that's basically baby-shit at this point.

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You wouldn't be fucked. How good is your C++? C++ is still used a ton in financial industry, gaming, DoD to name a few.. I mean if you have the logic down picking up new languages isn't hard.

TJT said:

If you're good at logic or willing to figure it out that's really all it takes.

I think the youth factor is to be up and up on the constantly changing tool/framework landscape. Which isn't as important as some make it out to be imo.

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Yeah it just depends on what you wanna do and what industry you work in.

Kuro you could find lots of jobs using 20 year old c++ baselines or newer ones that don't require you to constantly learn new frameworks/tools/languages. The expectations on knowledge of languages/frameworks/tools will look different from industry to industry, DoD companies may not adopt new stuff often due to security reqs while Uber is researching the latest language/framework to optimize certain aspects of their architecture.

Number #1 thing is you have to enjoy it and be committed as fuck. I'd always suggest constantly learning.

My only recommendation would be to learn/keep learning a strongly typed language. It's good to know C and a scripting language pretty well.

But don't do Javascript unless you are all about doing front end... for some bizarre reason. *gag*

Kuro said:

Thanks for the replies, going to spend the summer re-familiarizing/updating myself and then see about tests or bootcamps in the area and cheap learning stuff for other common systems. I figure with the plague ain't nobody hiring in the next 6 months anyway. Made a lot of life choices in my 20s that were optimized for taking care of mom, not for living my life afterward.

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Noooo for the love of God don't do a bootcamp. That shit is such a scam. You can literally teach everything to yourself for free or via teamtreehouse, udemy etc. Seriously it's just a racket to put people in debt promising them 110k jobs with 30k signing bonus and a free Tesla.

People are still hiring.

Kharzette said:

I barely recognize modern C++. The best ++ is just C with a cpp extension imho

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C is a beautiful language. Love writing algorithms in it and using for embedded.

TJT said:

My only recommendation would be to learn/keep learning a strongly typed language. It's good to know C and a scripting language pretty well.

But don't do Javascript unless you are all about doing front end... for some bizarre reason. *gag*

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JS can be super useful for all the jobs out there wanting angular, Vue, react, node, etc.

He's right tho, JS is aids but I do like node. Weakly typed - is true, That's what typescript is for TJT , duhh

But I'd agree, don't spend too much time diverging from what you're familiar with. Pick an industry you're interested in and find what languages, tools and frameworks they use.

This angular code I've written is a hot dumpster fire. But hey I'm pressed for time and it works!