Hello fellow developers,

Do you think software engineers are being paid well in Nigeria considering the stress that comes with the job?

Share your story.
What are your thoughts?

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Seuntek:
can u please list some of the skills

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Akiliogidi:

It makes sense bro, I have downloaded ur videos & videos from others & I like ur detailed explanations(just learnt how to use m for monetary input using decimal data type) Though I have not started coding coz no laptop for now(lockdown don skyrocket prices here).
Sometimes I do code with my phone ide, but it is limited.

Keep coding regardless. The only way to learn is to practice �

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Akiliogidi:


Thanks for d suggestion bro, abeg come down to basic level by using simple term , u can also chip in to make the thread active...
Omoluabiguy , hope I am not crossing my boundary sha

No you are not crossing any boundary, the essence of this thread is to learn and feel free to ask any questions you want. I can give as much text details as possible on here, but the video would do a lot more explanations including practical excercises to match the explanations.

I hope that makes sense to you.

wine4dguy:
Okay, so I just came across this thread and feel that Omoluabi is a great guy for starting up this thread. I am also a ASP.NET developer I can confirm that he is doing a great job teaching this.

That being said I think you should focus more on data manipulation using EF since learners will most definitely lose appetite when it comes to not finding data to work with(I dont know if you understand what I mean)

Thanks for the recognition, but like I said in my opening video, I am assuming my audience are people with little to no knowledge of programming at all and that being said, there are a lot of basics that needs to be cleared before moving up to using frameworks and data manipulation.
I actually feel that is a bit advance for stack beginners. Variables basic principles of OOP needs to be understood before Frameworks and data manipulation would make any sense. I understand you are a developer already but as this thread proceed, we’ll eventually get to EF stage and even higher advanced stage.ls than that!

Stay tuned and keep the suggestions coming.

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Akiliogidi:


Nice one, any reason u opted for VS 17 against the latest version?

The latest version is only updated to support the new .Net Core framework, other than that, they can do everything else like 2017. So for a beginner, 2015 or 2017 is fine! You have to be a very senior engineer to understand what the latest version can do and that’s not a necessary information for a starter.

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Akiliogidi:



Thanks bro, keep it up, I will check out the videos
Pls can u recommend a budget HP laptop solely for programming?

If you can get a laptop with 8GB ram, that’ll be good enough to start off.

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C# is a strongly typed language and what do I mean strongly typed? Every data that you want to use or reference to would require a "type" declaration by C#. For example, if you want to declare a text data type such as a name or sentence, We would need to use the string data type to declare that.
string name = "John";

for numbers, we would use integer: int result = 20;
and we also have other data types such as double, float, decimal, Boolean, var, dynamic and many more.

We can also use a class as a type but that is an advance topic and we would definitely get there as we proceed.

string name = "John";

console.WriteLine(name);
Console.ReadLine();

This would print out John.

I would be making video tutorials to follow up on my explanations here. Please subscribe to my youtube channel to motivate me because without you guys, it would be a dry page and channel. I want to help you guys to become engineers from the scratch.

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Akiliogidi:


Good day bro, I just stumbled on this thread when I was making a google search for c#.
Pls bro, i know you might be busy & the last update was in over 2years ago due to nonfollowership, but can u resurrect this thread by updating it? it means a lot to me(I like the simplicity) as I intend concentrating fully on c#.

omoluabiguy, I earnestly await your positive feedback

Thats fine, I'm resurrecting it and would be following up with a youtube channel for video tutorials. I have been busy with career and life but i want to keep teaching this skills. Please subscribe to my youtube channel for video tutorials and I will be feeding this page here with written tutorials as well.


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Niv25:


Happy new year bro...you made a very huge mistake...Am the guy your referring to am yet to apply...and am going for an undergraduate program.

why will I open a new moniker?
I appreciate your advice and I really understand where your coming from and I have considered so many things..Am leaving community colleges not cause you said so...but because I don't want to have any loopholes in my application. people with genuine intention and well stated reasons can still get a visa with the community college.

according to the V.O thread on F1 visa..I was made to understand that applying to community collage is never red flag as long as the school can issue an i20...and you are able to meet up the requirements..you will get your visa
thanks and Don't say something you not sure of next time so you don't get to accuse someone wrongly...For your mind your prophecy really came to past.

You can deceive yourself all you want! The earlier you listen to advises, the better for you

Aphrodite007:



Hi,

@Ezeigbo1ofImo @time2smile and anyone that can help.

Wow I had no idea that STEM students could get a PhD Scholarship in America, I’m utterly impressed by that! I can so relate to the pain of paying for studies while everyone is on a scholarship- We were 6 in class and I was the only one that paid a tuition, it was so painful!

I have been silently considering a PhD in the US mostly Cos my field of computing (cultural computing/user studies) is more acknowledged in the US than the UK.

So do you guys think someone with a 2.2 and merit (BSc & MSc respectively) would be considered for a scholarship. That BSc result makes me not even bother with scholarships at all, and I was honestly preparing to pay the PhD tuition until I saw your comments. God bless you guys plenty.

I don’t really think your Bsc 2:2 would impact your chances as long as your masters GPA is good (3.5 and above)

I stand to be corrected tho

Tolulopevictor:
Please guys am new here..av been following u people for a while now...
I need clarification on these please.
1..My interview is scheduled for 8th and my resumption date is 3rd,I applied for a change of appointment date but was denied..I learnt it doesn't matter..please is it true..
2..Am a graduate of chemistry but wanna start all over in nursing..though the school that admitted me only used my ssce for the admission..would I still go to the embassy with my university transcript, since it's not masters..

Defer your admission to fall and take your time to get your story right. It’s not advisable to hit the embassy after elapsing school’s start date. But then, what do I know

Time2Smile:




Yeah, one of the criteria for admission of PhD student in most programs is the availability of funding. The truth is STEM PhD is a full-time job and more, where is even the time or energy to run around for money?

To all prospective students reading this or will come across this in perpetuity, never ever pay for a STEM PhD out of pocket. The few that are not funded by their institutions are sponsored by NGOs or their countries. I just hope he gets funding upon arrival because the tuition for a semester can't be less than $15,000. Just imagine what he can do with that amount.

Why would someone even pay for PhD when you can have your tuition waived and also be earning up to 40-45k stipends annually. That’s not wise!

Chidinho10:


Oga stop making noise
Google "Prodigy Finance" and "MPower Finance". Things are changing.
In 5 years time, we will have a plethora of private firms offering nocosigner loans for Nigerians just as it is for Indians and Chinese people.

You are rude and you lack the decorum to coordinate a decent arguement. I question your intelligence

LagosismyHome:


Non Cosigner Student loans for MBA... FACTS . there are several out there but to point out some


1. Johnson at Cornell University in partnership with QUORUM Federal Credit Union offers no co-signer loans to students enrolled in full-time two year MBA as well as the accelerated MBA program. The loan amount would cover the cost of tuition after deduction of scholarship amount if any.

2. The NYU Stern School of Business in association with The First Marblehead Corporation and Union Federal Savings Bank provide a no co-signer loan to eligible international candidates.

3. Duke Fuqua School of Business offers a no co-signer loan through Coastal Federal Credit Union with the current rate being 8.25%.

4. Haas School of Business provides loan assistance through the Eli Lilly Credit Union to international students without a U.S. co-signer.

5. At Wharton, students can take a loan to cover up to 80% of the total student budget which includes tuition and living expense. Wharton in collaboration with Quorum Federal Credit Union would be offering this no co-signer loan to international candidates from the fall 2013 semester.

6. Yale School of Management offers the Yale International Student Loan to all international students. This loan does not need a U.S. co-signer and covers the tuition and fees after deduction of scholarships. The interest rate is fixed at 7.75%.

7. The Darden School of Business and the Darden School Foundation have entered into a multiyear International Loan Program agreement with Discover to provide no co-signer international student loans beginning with the class of 2014. The maximum loan amount is fixed at $65, 000 per year.

8. UCLA Anderson has partnered with Eli Lilly Credit Union to provide no co-signer loans up to $85,000 per year.

9. International students admitted at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School can borrow up to $50,000 per year through the Coastal Federal Credit Union without needing a co-signer.

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Ok thanks for The enlightenment. I’ll read it up! Atleast I get to learn something from this back and forth arguement

LagosismyHome:


You just like to argue so i leave you with what you believe.....

when you know the strenght or worth of wharton MBA then you realise some schools have special arrangement

I want to believe your information is based on hearsay. Now let me put a light on it for you.

There is something known as “Economic Hardship” for a student on F1. And that lifeline is not available until after 1 year in college. Now when a student file for economic hardship, the best the school can do for such student is to authorize the student to work off campus and not student loan. Any F1 student that gets a student loan in the US has got a creditworthy cosigner. This is not a matter of arguement. It’s a public knowledge and all thanks to google.

I rest my case

LagosismyHome:


Some schools have special arrangement outside of the norm .... have two friends who went to Wharton MBA on loan. Don't have the full details but I specifically asked both if they had a co signer and both said no .

It all arranged by the school and given based on the post employment ability after graduation

I don’t want to believe that, It’s either your friends have you wrong information, but If the international student office stand for them, then it’s still considered as cosigner!

So that still brings us back to the fact that if there is no creditworthy cosigner, no student loan for an international student
Perhaps, what do you mean by post employment ability? Kindly elucidate because I don’t think that makes sense economically considering the fact that a student is on F1 visa and the school assures a financial company of the students ability to get job to pay back loans that could take as long as 15-20 years to payback

gokuu:
On the student loans issue.

I will just say that getting student loans is a very acceptable way of paying for your education. In fact, the vast majority of Americans pay for school with the use of debt. Where I work, many people have gone for MBA programs with a combination of personal funds, partial scholarship, and student loans - with loans constituting the highest proportion. The loans have been either US loans or International loans like Prodigy.

In fact, last August two colleagues went to MBA programs at Duke and Wharton; they both took loans. The Duke lady took a Discover loan (last I checked this was a US company) with no US cosigner. But there are some nuances to this because the MBA program has a understanding with some of the banks and lending agencies to fund their students and disbursements are made to the University directly so there is no need for all that SEVIS, SSN thing.

The bottom line is that extremely few people have USD200,000 to pay for MBA program so many take loans. If you get accepted to the Kellogg or Columbia MBA, they will let you know about all the loan options available to you.

In Nigeria, we are very averse to loans and debt; and we generally believe things we cannot pay for outright are not for us. That is why many here just shun loans totally.

The real difference between a loan that is co-signed and one that isn't is the interest rates, co-signed loans are usually cheaper.

@bolded, except the person you are talking about is a US Citizen or residency, then that’s a very horrible lie from the deepest pit of hell! Loan and SSN are related like brothers and sister. No loan or financial company in the US would give you a loan without SSN to run a credit check on you. Let’s be factual about the information we give on here in order not to mislead people.

***In addition***

If you are an international student, you ain’t getting no jack student loan without a co-signer even if you have excellent credit at that! I stand on that! YES!

You all are making the loan thing sound easy.

1. You can’t get a US loan as an international student without a US citizen/residents with very good credit score.

2. Indians get loans from their country and not in the US

3. How can you even go to the embassy there in naija with a US loan approval. I mean how did you get the loan approved without you being in the US proving a US address and maybe SSN. It’s technically impossible to go to Embassy with a US loan approval document. You have to be here first.