Video weekend #3: How to find a job in IT without experience, does a programmer need English, what are soft skills and how to get them

“Soft skills: why no one needs programmers without soft skills”

Are you a good coder but find it hard to fit into a team? Perhaps this is because you are not paying enough attention to developing your soft skills. The author of this video explains in an accessible form how soft skills differ from hard skills, and also gives practical advice on their development. In addition, the blogger answers the most common questions related to the term soft skills:

1. How “soft skills” manifest themselves at the beginning of a career.
2. Why do techies underestimate soft skills (very wrongly).
3. What are soft skills?
4. Why soft skills are so important.
5. About “D'Artagnan syndrome” in a programmer.

The video will be useful to every programmer who is interested in his professional growth and does not want to stop there.

“We are writing the game “Life” in Java”

Having studied the basics of the Java language, many try to put their acquired knowledge into practice, trying their hand at writing simple games and applications. If Tetris, calculator and “Snake” are too simple for you, pay attention to a very interesting example - the mathematical cellular automaton “Life”. In his hour-long webinar, the author of the video invites everyone to write this exciting logic game in Java and shows how to do it. Well, if this is your first time hearing about the game “Life”, then immediately take a look at Wikipedia or play it online.

“Does a programmer need English?”

It is generally accepted that English is a must have for a modern programmer. Indeed, it is needed at least for reading technical documentation, not to mention communicating with foreign customers. But it turns out that there is an alternative point of view on this issue. Frontend developer Tanya in her video shares her thoughts on the fact that a good coder will not be lost without knowledge of a foreign language. Whether she is right or wrong - decide for yourself. At the very least, this video will encourage those who are still not fluent in English. So we recommend you watch it.