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I’m just getting started on my third attempt at changing careers from sys-admining over to coding (starting with the Odin project this time). I’m not sure the questions you ask, while interesting, will be covered. Can you point to some resources or subject matter to research to get exposure to these questions? The non coding, coding questions are interesting to me and I’m curious if my experience will help or if it’s something I need to account for while learning.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
We stay away from riddles, and instead focus on CS concepts. We’ll rephrase to avoid jargon if you don’t have a formal education, or it has been a while. Here are a few categories:

OOP concepts like SOLID

concurrency vs parallelism, approaches for each (generators, threads, async,’ etc), and tradeoffs

typing (e.g. is a Python strongly or weakly typed? Java? JavaScript?), and practical implications

functional programming concepts like closures, partial application, etc

SQL knowledge

types of tests, and approaches/goals for each

And some practical details like:

major implementation details of our stack (Python’s GIL, browser features like service workers, etc)

git and docker experience

build systems and other dev tools

That covers most of it. We don’t expect every candidate to know everything, we just want to get an idea of the breadth and depth of their knowledge.
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- r3g3n3x@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Love it. So much to look into. Appreciate your time.
  
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