{"id":68754,"date":"2019-11-19T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68754"},"modified":"2019-11-19T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:09:25","slug":"the-skills-that-you-need-to-hone-to-become-a-software-engineer-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/11\/19\/the-skills-that-you-need-to-hone-to-become-a-software-engineer-english\/","title":{"rendered":"The skills that you need to hone to become a software engineer [English]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/the-skills-that-you-need-to-hone-to-become-a-software-engineer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The skills that you need to hone to become a software engineer<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from interestingengineering.com by Trevor English<br \/>\n<em>Software engineering jobs are expected to increase in demand by 25% over the next decade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-3\">One of the first steps to becoming a software engineer or even just evaluating whether it&#8217;s the right career path is learning a new programming language. Programming is the bulk of what software engineers do on the day to day, so if you don&#8217;t like it or just can&#8217;t seem to get good at it, you might want to choose another path.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-4\">Breaking it down elementary style, a programming language is just a language that computers understand that can give it commands to execute certain tasks. There are hundreds of programming languages that exist, around\u00a0<strong>700<\/strong>, but there will be a core subset that are used commonly in the industry<\/p>\n<p id=\"p-5\">Here are a few of the core languages that you might want to look into.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Java<\/li>\n<li>Javascript<\/li>\n<li>Python<\/li>\n<li>C++<\/li>\n<li>PHP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fastest-growing-programming-languages-github-2019-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The 10 fastest-growing programming languages, according to Microsoft-owned GitHub<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from businessinsider.com by Rosalie Chan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skills that you need to hone to become a software engineer &#8212; from interestingengineering.com by Trevor English Software engineering jobs are expected to increase in demand by 25% over the next decade. Excerpt: One of the first steps to becoming a software engineer or even just evaluating whether it&#8217;s the right career path is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,174,45,204,310,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-career-development","category-computer-science","category-programming","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68767,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68754\/revisions\/68767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}