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KazikageSama:
ARM 3/5

You are an assembly language programmer?
They are so few people who know assembly. Nice to know some still exist

Hannania:
Unless for the fortunate Geeks at Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Ericsson, and other MNCs. Apart from Microsoft, all those are mostly senior devs.

You hardly see job postings.

How do Microsoft Lagos recruit new grads? Do they advertise the job postings? What's the payment like? What's the interview like?
I can become a fortunate geek if push comes to shove.

Hannania:
Firstly, what skills do you have? What niche are you targeting?

Backend engineer using Java Spring boot or Nodejs.
I'm not really interested in working as network admin/power systems engineer.
That is also why I'm specialising in electronics and computer engineering at school. I ditched both communications and power systems.

Sleekcode:
You answered yourself here now.

Isn't 150k too small. Such salary won't go anywhere if you're based in Lagos. My friends work remotely from school so dey can afford to save much on that amount. I don't want to start my career working remotely, I need to start in office so I can network and secure connections. With the rising cost of living, 150k per month will have little to nothing saved after removing all expenses

I will be graduating school June/July next year with a first class degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

I don't want to waste much time so I'd like to enter the job market immediately upon graduation.

I intend to start applying for jobs early next year in anticipation for my graduation but I don't know what to expect as total compensation for junior developers who are staffed full time.

Some of my friends have already taken up full time jobs while being students but they paid the price with their grades yet their compensation is grossly appalling (100k - 150k max)

Question is, what is the median compensation for a junior developer with 0 YOE and above average coding skills in Nigeria?

And how is the WLB too?, I don't plan on killing myself or working extra hours for any company.

My major goal is to get enough money to fund my Master's abroad if international scholarships become too difficult to get.

cc qtguru, tensa, hannania and all the other Egbons wey dey motivate nobodies like me.

Seun:
After you run your mouth when I say ok I want to recruit programmers, obviously I won't hire a rude person.

If you think the login function has been broken since 2015 and the site has continued to run I have a bridge to sell you.

Don't bring the agbero behaviour of twitter to this shared space.

Please Seun, we need an active mod in this programming section. The current one is very inactive or is not interested (seems he's busy with moderating other sections and is neglecting this section) and this section is always in haywire. There are so many spam accounts that come and reply to there own posts everyday to push their threads to the top of this section.
Some others are loose with words and are always quick to insult others.

Please, appoint another mod. I'm sure you'll see this but I'm betting on the one chance that you wouldn't ignore it, please restore sanity to this section just like how serene the travel section is.

Justwise is doing a very good job in the travel section. The travel section and this section are the only sections I visit and I can easily see the difference between both.

P.S - If you eventually decide to listen to my plea, please choose a programmer as a mod not someone who isn't remotely interested in programming. Thank you

On another note, I would like to change my moniker, can you help me do that? I'd really appreciate.

namikaze:

def partition(arr, x):
  i, j = 0, len(arr) - 1
  while i <= j:
    while i < len(arr) and arr[i] <= x:
      i += 1
    while j >= 0 and arr[j] > x:
      j -= 1
    if i > j:
      break
    arr[i], arr[j] = arr[j], arr[i]
    i, j = i + 1, j - 1
  
  i = 0
  while i < j:
    if arr[i] == x:
      while j >= 0 and arr[j] == x:
        j -= 1
      arr[i], arr[j] = arr[j], arr[i]
      j -= 1
    i += 1
  return arr

While your solution may get the job done ( I didn't test it, but I looked through it to understand it well enough), I hate to be the one to break it you that it doesn't satisfy the time constraint. It has a time complexity of O(n**2) but your question requested for O(n).

namikaze:
Since constant space is required, no additional data structure's allowed.
I was able to come up with a solution by modifying the quicksort's partitioning algorithm, so that's a hint.

Do you mean that we should modify the array passed to the function directly?

tensazangetsu20:
You can solve this using quick sort.

Quick sort does not satisfy OP's constraint, it has O(N) space complexity and O(nlogn) time complexity for its best case. In it's worst case, it can have an O(n**2) complexity

I'm no C++ expert but from my knowledge of C, I can answer your question.

The int data type is a signed integer data type, it's memory size is 32bits in modern architecture. It could be less than that in older computers. This means that int can store integers varying from -2³¹ to 2³¹ - 1 where the most significant bit is the sign bit. But this only allows computers to be able to make calculations within this range, -2 billion to 2 billion (which is 10 digits) and is very limiting. Eg, you cannot store your ATM 16 digit number using this data type. If you store such number in an int, you get an integer overflow and you won't get the expected result.

Enter the long data type, this is a 64bit signed integer data type. It stores integers from -2⁶³ to 2⁶³ - 1. It can store numbers within this range (-9*10¹⁸ to 9*10¹⁸) which is very convenient for our use today.

All these are heavily dependent on the architecture you're building with and your OS.
It's considered good practice to use,

int8_t # exactly 8 bits
int16_t # exactly 16 bits
int32_t # exactly 32 bits
iint64_t # exactly 64 bits

size_t

Tbh, if you're considering fraud as an alternative, I don't think you would get anything out of programming.

The tinder you want to use in defrauding others was built by a human just like you. They didn't quit because of little difficulty. They grinded their shit until they became employable.

I can only encourage you to stick it out and watch yourself improve but if you eventually choose to do fraud, I can only pray for the authorities to catch up with you.

LienwaltAbel:
If you want to get started with OS development then you can learn 32 and 64 bit Intel assembly. If you don't want to do that then you can learn the 8502 assembly (a microcontroller by Intel). I'm not really sure if there's a difference between it and regular 8088 assembly but just learn it Sha. It's one of the most popular embedded systems microcontroller and even outshines ARM (that is if we take away the fact that phones are also embedded systems).

Thank you very much. I'm not learning it for professional use though. I just want to be aware of the nitty gritty of low level computing and my school work requires it too. You didn't say the tools I'd need to download, I saw masm32 online. I'm not sure if I can use Visual Studio, if I can, I'd really prefer it.

LienwaltAbel:
İt's not that long. I'm already a C programmer and I've worked a bit on OS development which made me proficient in x86 assembly (I've also done ARM assembly and trust me, if you can learn these two, you can learn anyone).

Please what resources did you use to learn assembly?. I've sufficient experience in C already and I'm trying to get my hands wet with Assembly, I tried a 2 hr tutorial on YouTube but it was too fast paced. Which do you think I should learn, ARM, MIPS or x86?
And what do tools do I need to download?

UnaDoWell:
I contacted the Prof directly around August & he agreed to supervise my PhD.

What course are you studying?
Did the professor need your transcript before you got the admit?

I'm asking because I'd be graduating Bachelor's in August 2023 and I'm not sure if I can get my transcript 4 months after graduation (Nigerian schools and their issues) in preparation for Spring 2024.

How long did it take you to get a job from when you started out?

I think you have answered your own question. The best way is to hash all the files, this is done recursively from the root directory using a sha1-sum (you could use other hasing algorithms if you like), Linux provides a sha1-sum hash by default, then you loop through all your hashes, if you encounter a duplicate hash, you delete either of them, the date of file creation and filename doesn't matter since the content are the same. All this can be done with a bash script but I'd have to google to come up with a working solution. Even at that, my script might not be efficient because I'm not so versed at bash scripting.

Apply for international scholarships. Go and do an advanced degree abroad. You can easily join the workforce in the new country upon graduation. This country has no plan for its youths. This is a brotherly advice from one young Nigerian to another.

P.S - Many foreign universities application cycle is open now. Godspeed

My title says it all. I'm a bit new to this field so I've been self studying the undergraduate CS curriculum for some time now. But my waist!! Ahh. The pain is becoming too unbearable.

How are guys managing? Or am I the only one experiencing this

Hello everyone, how do I find schools with fully funded MSCS offers?
Most funded programs I see are targeted towards PhD applicants and I'm not ready for a PhD yet because of the academic rigor involved and the 5 year length.

My profile - I'm a fourth year undergrad in Electrical/Electronic Engineering but I want to make a switch to CS. My programming skills is good. I have been self studying the CS undergrad curriculum for some time now. My CGPA is in first class range and I intend to build good relationship with my professors in my final year when the strike is called off. No publications. No CS related internships though I'm working on changing that soon. No research papers. My target schools are Stanford, Berkeley, CMU or UIUC. My application cycle is Fall '24.

Anonymous6o6:
The August cohort group has been functioning so well and the group is almost filled up. They're about 500+ there now. We had a google meeting yesterday to discuss the concept of emacs, vim, shell, and the sandbox.

I registered for ALX software engineering program last month and I got accepted same day saying I would be onboarded on August 15th. I'm yet to hear from then since then and I'm surprised by this. Have I missed anything already?

Techstar:
because of the $15,000 charge from your salary

Can u please tell me more about microverse and their T and C's

I found out that I've been fed a lie since infancy. I'm glad I emancipated early.

Sad. So these foreign companies defraud job prospects! I thought their jobs were all juicy and the companies are well off. Take heart bruh.

Altairx440:
Your assumption is wrong, I've never done a bootcamp and I'm also not work ready. I understand what you mean by a bootcamp developer though.
I'm self studying a simulated a comp. science degree, with the focus on discrete maths and DSA, if my fundamentals are off then I guess you're better than Stanford/Berkeley/Princeton university comp. science professors. No disrespect.

What CS degree are you self studying?. I'll like to go the same route

This is good. You're doing well. Keep it up

Try using downloadly.net

tensazangetsu20:
I know people in my network who are not even up to 20 who got internships at faang. These are level 100 Nigerian students already in mad fucking money.

Out of curiosity, I'd like to ask how much do FAANG interns earn?
Esp those ones interning virtually from Nigeria.

Good evening house.
My sister recently graduated from Uni with a 4.28/5.0 in English and Literary Studies.
She will like to move to Canada for greener pastures after her NYSC
What options does she have and what are her options.
She doesn't have money to sponsor herself through school there.
Please help with advice

Imoleholuuu:
Yes sure. Please send a mail

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