Help getting experience

[Bill Warner]

Any sugestins for a specific book?

I would like to do this as well to help inprove my programming.

Bill W

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:48, Alpha Zenon Sanchez wrote:
> Here's what I'm doing, and perhaps you can do this
> too.
> 
> Pick a language...like say...Java.  Get a good
> algorithm book and develop some simple programs that
> show these algorithms (ie sorting, searching,
> recursion etc...). Develop small applets to show on a
> job interview.  
> 
> Along with these applets, write up a diagram and
> pseudocode to explain what the algoritm does. In case
> of Java, draw some simple UML diagrams to show the
> relationships between your classes.
> 
> 
> Understanding some basic algrithm concepts helps in a
> lot of ways.
> 
> 1. Algoritms exist because some programmer from the
> past has solved some particular problem - you don't
> have to re-invent the wheel.
> 
> 2. Understanding algoritm gives you a deeper
> understanding how programming really works.
> Control-flow statemetns, functions and proceedures are
> related
> somehow.  Algorithms are a great example of how these
> programming pieces fit together as a whole.
> 
> This suggestion probably won't land you a job right
> away, but you have to love programming.  When you go
> to an interview, they will most likely sit you down on
> a computer and program something.  Knowing some basic
> algorithms can help.
> 
> You can use this as 'experience.'
> 
> =====
> Thanks,
> Alpha Zenon Sanchez
> 
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