Any Software Developers/engineers On the Forums?

[Sputnik]

Any Software Developers/engineers On the Forums?

Sup guys, I'm enlisted in the air force (leaving to bmt in a month) and I was thinking what to do for a future career for when I leave the service, and the Idea of being software developer always interested me. If anyone is in school to become one or is already working as one, If you can tell me what the differences are between the two occupations, what schooling consist of, and employment opportunities, etc etc....

Please litter my brain with your knowledge :firehop:

[Sputnik]

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[Sputnik]

Bueller?

[Jaxx_]

are you asking the difference between a software developer and a software engineer? or the difference between a software developer and an engineer?

I've done software development for about 7 years now, but it has never been my "main gig" for more than a year.

[Fusion]

I do web and ecommerce site development for small businesses. You might want to have a look at this niche and try to find out if you could make a living on your own or teamed up with a couple people. There are tons of options that can make your client's (and their clients') life easier and make you some nice cash.
If I hadn't gone down this route, I'd personally look into Apple App development.

[Sputnik]

@jaxx, yes I want to know about the difference, but more so on what the individual jobs entail.

@fusion, that sounds really interesting and a good way to make a side income. Can you tell me how you got started and what materials you used to learn your skill?

Either one of you feel free to message me privately

[kronus]

I am a full stack dev professionally. I'm not aware of any differences between the duties of a "developer" vs. an "engineer", but it's possible that the companies I'm familiar with don't make a distinction and others do.

[Jaxx_]

I am a full stack dev professionally. I'm not aware of any differences between the duties of a "developer" vs. an "engineer", but it's possible that the companies I'm familiar with don't make a distinction and others do.

I'm with kronus, it usually would just be a name that a company assigns. Perhaps an engineer might deal with more technical aspects than just writing code, such as dealing with I/O limitations of the hardware or software in use.

I enjoy doing software development, it doesn't take much to get started. Even if you're not going to do it full time, solving your own problems is a great way to make use of the skills. Outside of work I've created an alarm clock that ring my house phone, an exif data reader, a class registration notifier, and plenty more.

Do you have any experience with programming?

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[Fusion]

Can you tell me how you got started and what materials you used to learn your skill?

It wasn't really a choice, but huge interest. I was fascinated by computers since I was like 5 and when I learned what web pages were, I always wanted my own.
Later on I took classes, but I was always way ahead of what was being taught so I did my own studying and experimenting. I bought a few books, but later found it much easier to follow online tutorials, depending on the task I wanted to accomplish.
If you decide to go this route, you'll want to have a look at HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and especially PHP. There's a good chance you'll also run into mySql. You don't necessarily need to learn the code, there's lots of software out there today to help you with that, but rather understand why and how the code makes things happen and how the various types of code cooperate to make a functional whole.