I am a developer and I know how hard it is to solve difficult issues while programming in case you did not get any help. I have faced this so many times. That's why I started this blog so that I can share problems and solutions with developer community. In case if you face any issue in programming do check my blog once, it will surely save your time.
Hello, this is bit different blog post. Usually I write blogs on very serious stuff like solving coding issues and about technologies and careers and about latest trends on IT industries etc. Now I feel that my blog is becoming very serious so I decided to write some blogs on lighter notes. Now you will read about funny things happened while working on projects some practical jokes on programming and all. I short I am going to add bit humor on my blog. In this first post I am going explain how I took revenge on end users of my projects.
A Programmer's Revenge
A programmer is a person who is working all days long in front of computers. He has to deal with all kind of annoying stuff like funny and impractical demands of customers, anger of his boss, anger of tester, humiliation from boss and team leaders or may be from co workers. A programmer deals everyday with these and more of the other things like.
Sudden change in requirements
Rewrite entire code again
Work rejected by client or team leaders
Do extra work without any rewards
No credit on successful completion
Tight deadlines or change in deadlines
No help from co workers of leaders
No motivation from boss and team leads
So in short a programmer is always in frustration most of the times and eager to take revenge but can't do that as he is afraid of loosing job or cut pay etc. So here are some funny ways you can take out your frustration and nobody will notice it and still you will have some kind of satisfaction that you took revenge of all the humiliations, frustrations, disappointments etc.
Add Some Funny Comments and Lines in Code
This is the most hidden way to take out your frustration as no one els is going to look at source code except you and your team. Most of the time client is not going to see the source code so they will not read comments. Here are some example of comments I have used while I was working on projects to take out my frustration.
//Function : Name of Function
//Author : Hiren Dave
//Description : Use it at your own risk. Do not come to me crying if it crashes
Exception exp = new Exception("Some idiot entered wrong data");
throw exp;
if(!isNan(maxSalary)){
//God has given brain to all human but some idiots still enter wrong data so we have to check.
alert('Invalid Salary.');
return;
}
//What's in the name? Yes everything is in name. It is necessary.
//I can't take it anymore I am exhausted, will fix it later.
//I just don't know why I am writing this code. It's unnecessary but it's part of my job so doing it.
So yes these are some comments I used over the time to take out my frustrations and took my revenge. You can also try this, it will surely help you to manage with your anger and frustration.
Play Shooting And Fighting Games
This is the other way I took out my frustration. Whenever I am frustrated and angry I play shooting and fighting games and squash the opponents in games to release anger and took my revenge virtually in games. Games really help in this matter as you are just hurting virtual characters in games. Here are some games I play for sometime to take out my frustration.
Whack Your Boss
Desert Rifle
Street Fights
These ways you can took your revenge and can deal with frustrations. Hope this helps you.
This blog post is for the developers who are stuck in some errors and not able to solve it and looking for solutions on Google but not able to find it because they are not searching it properly. So here in this blog I am going to explain some tips which I have been using over the period of time and most of the time I am able to get solution through Google and solve my problem.
Tip 1 : Use Error Codes to Search
Most of the time whenever there is exception or errors, there is an error code displayed in the error stack trace. Use that error code to search on Google and use the ClassName or component name which is throwing this error with type of error. For example Android MediaRecorder. When you are using media recorder there are error codes attached with each action and each stage of MediaRecorder. For example
Android MediaRecorder start failed - 38
Android MediaRecorder start failed - 19
When you search in Google with the error. Android MediaRecorder start failed - 38, you will get following links.
As you can see in above screenshot there is top links of popular website StackOverFlow where others have posted this question and there will be solution here so your problem is solved.
Another example in windows whenever there is problem with drivers of any hardware it gives code 28 errors. So to search in Google use following
Windows error code 28
And you will get number of blog post to solve this error.
Tip 2 : Use Name of Exception To Search, Do not Copy paste whole stack trace
Whenever there is an exception in program, you will get stack trace where it shows all the classes and files and number of line from where exception is thrown. Do not copy paste that stack track in Google Search. Use first line of Stack trace, which is normally type of exception. For example, in android app is some class is not found at runtime it throws ClassNotFound exception. So to solve that error, search in Google
Android ClassNotFound "ClassName"
And it will give you relevant links where there will be solution for this. So your error can be solved easily.
Tip 3 : Be Specific for What you Want to Search and Use Keywords
Be as specific as possible in your search query so Google can search relevant links for you. For example, if you want to hide element with JavaScript. If you give search
Hide element
It will give you links with hiding element using CSS and JavaScript and jQuery and Angular and all. But if you want specific result with say jQuery or JavaScript, use that key word in your search result.
Hide element jQuery
Hide element JavaScript
Then it will give you relevant links with exactly what you are looking for. Same way for anything else use key words. For example if you are looking for tutorials to start with. Use search like
Laravel Getting Started
Android quick start
Angular quick start etc. Because most of the bloggers who write blogs on Getting started, they use titles like Getting started, quick start etc. You will get what you want on the first page of Google.
Let's start this blog by asking a simple question to yourself.
Are you a Copy Paste Developer?
Most of the readers who are reading this post, will answer Yes for this question. We all are copy paste developer at one time. I am also a copy paste developer. I usually copy paste some lines of code from my old projects or from some blog post or from the StackOverFlow. All the developers to that at one point of the time. We do this to save our time and efforts.
So now the questions are Does copy paste always works? Does it make your code better or worst? So in short it is blessing or curse for developers.
Well, I would say that if you copy paste and do it wisely and with proper understanding then it's really a blessing for you but if you do it blindly you could end up in disaster. It will introduce so many other bugs in your code and eventually you have to start from scratch.
What are the Good Things about Copy Paste?
Being a copy paster programmer at some time I would say in most of the cases copy paste is good for the developers. You don't have to rewrite entire code once again. With copy paste and little changes you can solve your problem easily. It saves your time and efforts and can solve your problems easily.
I would like to share my experience here. When I started working on creating iOS app, I was not having enough knowledge of Objective C and all and still I created a full fledge iOS application with Copy Paste. I was working on application for motivational speaker. The requirement was to create app to list lessons of speaker and when user tap on lessons show details of lesson with videos and picture gallery. So what I did is I found open source application for food recipes. Application was very similar to what I was looking for. First of all list of recipes and then details of recipe. So I copy paste the code with views and controllers and all and instead of recipes, put motivational lessons and bingo the app is created. So here copy paste was blessing for me. I created entire IOS application in a week and with much less efforts.
So copy paste is always blessing for developers but you have to make sure certain things while doing copy paste.
Understand the code which you are copy pasting
Modify it as per your coding standards and as per your code logic
Check for errors in the code before copy paste
Do testing after copy paste
Write comments in your code after copy paste
What are the Bad Things about Copy Paste?
Copy Paste could be disaster for your if you just do it blindly and you do not try to understand what you are copy pasting. Everyone copies code from StackOverflow or other forums from time to time. Hopefully, you do it sensibly, using it as a starting point for your own production code — working through what you’ve just pasted in to understand it, experimenting with it, modifying it, making it fit for your purpose rather than just blindly copy-and-pasting random code from the internet. It's possible that code which you are copy pasting may have errors or may have entirely different purpose than yours. So it can cause issues in your code and can break your code.
So I would say only one thing, understand the code which you are planning to copy paste and then copy paste it.
So it's up to you to turn copy paste into blessing or curse. If you do it wisely, it will always be blessing and there are very rare chance that it may turn into curse for you.
I am a computer programmer and have been working in the IT industry since last 9 years. During this time I have realized many times that a programmer is mis interpreted by many who don't know exactly about programming and IT industry. There are certain myths in mind of non programmer persons that needs to be changed. This blog will explain 5 things that I have heard many times and I really hated to listen that. If you are a non IT person and reading this blog, just make sure next time you don't speak following things in front of computer programmer. If you are an IT person and reading this blog, just enjoy and and add a comment if you want to add something to this list.
Can you Fix my PC? Can you Fix my Windows?
This is the biggest mis understanding in mind of non IT people. They just believe that a computer programmer can repair any computer and can fix Windows. They can repair any part of computer including RAM and Hard disk and even Processor. Now this is a limit. How one programmer will know about hardwares? And hardwares like hard disk and processor is highly configured hardwares and need special environments and tools and skills to do that. It's not like open the CPU, take out hard disk, smashed hammers on it and done, it's repaired. Yes we can do small things like open CPU and adjust RAM and check for any loose connection and if that fixes the PC and then it's well and good. But beyond that we can not do anything. WE CAN NOT CREATE A COMPUTER
Same goes of operating system, if windows is corrupted or not working properly due to virus, a programmer can not fix it just like that. Operating system like windows are too much complex system and if its broken, it need to be repaired by expert who knows about it. Off course some programmers do know much about it and can fix the things but not all programmers can do it. So please spare us with this.
WE ARE THE PROGRAMMERS AND WE DO NOT REPAIR PC AND WE DO NOT FIX WINDOWS
Do You Develop Websites?
No all the programmers do not just make websites , there are so many fields and functions in IT industry like mobile app, desktop app, cloud development, server admin etc. And all the programmers will have their own specializations. Some of the programmers create mobile app, some are experts in creating desktop applications. And anyways, internet is not just about websites, there is much more and for each field and functions, there are programmers who are expert in it.
Type Without Looking At Keyboard and Type it Faster
Programming is not just about writing stories, where we just have to type characters and alphabets and just numbers. Every computer language has strict syntax to follow when writing code and creating programs.
For example, there should be semi colon ( ; ) at end of each statement when you are using PHP language. When we are writing a code we uses lots of characters like
: colon
; semi colon
( ) [ ] { } all type of brackets
, comma etc.
So we have to look down and see if we are using correct character. And we can not type faster while writing a code as when we are writing a code, we also have to think if it's correct or not and make sure there is no error or syntax error. So
WE CAN NOT TYPE FASTER AND WE HAVE TO LOOK AT KEYBOARD.
Are You Writing Code All Nights?
Yes it's a fact that computer programmer works till late night or would like to work till late night but this is not usual scenario and we do not write code all nights. We are normal people and would like to rest like normal people do. We like to work till late night but not at a cost of our health and besides we are not machine that will work 24 hours a day with out any rest.
Do You Also Hack Computers?
A Big No, programmers are not hackers not even ethical hacking. Hacking needs good knowledge of computer hardwares and networks and not all programmers know about it. It needs some special skills and training to be a qualified ethical hackers. Yes some programmers do it for fun and out of curiosity but this is not something we do it regularly on day to day business. It's not our bread butter and besides hacking is illegal and none of the programmer would like to go on that way.
This blog is about self evaluation. After reading this blog, you will realize if you have what it takes to be a great developer and if you are have not this symptoms ,you have to find out your Knack.
You Should Have Knack Of Technology.
According to definition in dictionary meaning of Knack is.
A special talent or skill, especially one difficult to explain or teach
A skilful, ingenious, or resourceful way of doing something
A particular talent or aptitude, esp an intuitive one
So yes you need to have special talent and clear aptitude and particular attitude to be a good developer. In short you should have Knack of Technology like Little Dilbert
So yes you should be like Little Dilbert to be a great software engineer. You should have Knack of technology and if you don't have it then you have to find it or develop it. Next we will see some questions that you have to ask yourself and find out if you have that knack or not.
Do you like sitting in front of computer for long time?
This if the first and foremost requirement to be a developer. Because as a developer you have to sit in front of computer and write code of long time. As you will be given a task and deadline to complete it and you have to meet that deadline. So you have to sit for long time and complete it. Sometime you may have to skip lunch, tea or dinner, you should be ready for it. In short it will be your "RACE AGAINST TIME" and you have to win it.
Do you like to learn new things?
This is another most crucial requirement to be a good developer. Your learning will not stop after your college course. If you think I have studied enough and I will not invest my time to learn something new, you are at the dead end of your career. Because technologies come and go. Nothing is permanent. What is hot technology today will be out of the market tomorrow and something new will come and if you are not willing to learn new thing, you will be out of the race. Take an examples of programming languages.
There was a time where developers were using languages like C, C++
Then comes Java.
Then comes VB.NET, C#.net
Then comes PHP
Earlier there was VB script, then we have JavaScript
Earlier there was Objective C and now we have Swift
Earlier there was no cloud computing, now we have Cloud Computing
So things are constantly changing and if you are not willing to except change then you can not be good developer so you have to learn new things and adopt and survive it.
Can you keep calm in worst condition?
Coding is an art that we have to do with calm and composed mind. You should not be short tempered. Because while coding you may have to face situation where no matter what you do error is not resolved, you are trying for hours to get something working and it's not working as expected, you are not getting proper output. In this situation if you loose you calm and get angry then it will get worse and you will never be able to solve your problem. Do you know one missing semi colon in code can create nightmare for you. In this situation you should not get angry and search for error. Debugging is the process which needs lots of patience. You have to debug step by step and it is real time consuming.
Sometime you may have to face situation like your work is over written due to mistake or it's rejected by your leader or client and he asked you do do it again. In this case you should not punch into face of your leader or client but KEEP CALM AND CODE ON.
Do you think twice before start working?
Whenever some task is assigned to you, you have to think twice and look for the best possible solution to achieve it. Don't just start working on it with first thought come up in mind. It may be possible that you end up with disaster and you have to redo everything. And at start of your career, you could be fired for not performing well and this can ruin your career. So be careful about it and think twice before you start working on it.
Do you listen to others?
It's about being team player. In your career hardly it will happen that you will be the only person working on the project, there is always a team and when you are working in team, you have to listen to others because everyone like to give opinion and you have to deal with it, It may be possible that you gave solution to some task but from your team someone else come up with better solution. so you have to listen to them and understand what your team members are trying to say. So be a good listener, keep your ego aside and be a good team player.
Do you communicate with others?
Communicate with others is as important as listening to others. That is again a quality of team player. Your team members should be aware of what you are doing and what problems you are facing. It's possible that your work is affecting someone else's work. You have to communicate with them and inform about it. Same way if you are working on someone else work then you to ask them first about it understand it and then work on it. This will lead to less errors.
Do you like Algorithms and Flow Charts?
Most of the course on software development includes algorithms and flow charts. When you are studying it you may find it worthless and waste of time but it's actually not a waste of time. Algorithms and Flow charts are key elements of development. When you will be working on any task you have to break down it to smaller tasks and setup the flow as per the domain you are working. For example if you are building online selling website then to place an order there is a flow like
Customer registered
Customer add billing and shipping address
Customer makes payment
If payment is successful, place an order else show error.
so that's the flow and for that you have to make up a flow chart in your mind and code as the flow.
Same way for the difficult task you have algorithm, which is nothing but a plan to solve the problem and you have to create that plan. If you don't like algorithms then you will not be able to solve complex problems.
Do you know how to search on Google?
In the era of internet and Google, there lots of websites and forums and blogs where developers like you and me write about the problems we are facing and others in the communities give solution to this.
So it's possible that problem you are facing is already faced by someone else and there is solution already but you have to search it and find it. For this you should know how to search effectively on Google and find out solution and save your time.
Do you consider worst outcome while coding?
This is one common problem I have seen in all the developers. When they are working on some tasks, they just consider the best outcome and assume that all the inputs will be available. But this is not the case always, you have to make sure that you consider worst scenario as well and handle it properly. Do not assume that you will have all the possible inputs. If you don't consider worst scenario there will be lots of problems.
Do you take responsibility of your work and do not blame others?
As I mentioned, it's team play and in the team whenever something goes wrong, blame game starts. Nobody would like to receive criticism and try to blame others when project failed. But as a good ethical developer, you have to accept your mistake and take responsibility of your work and be open about it. There is no shame in accepting your mistakes.
If your answer is Yes to above all the questions that means you are going to be a good developer. If your answer is NO for some questions that means you need to improve in that area but if your answer is NO for all the questions, I am afraid that you are not qualified to be a developer. Go for other career option.
This blog is again going to be a blog for motivation. A programmer is a person who writes the computer programs. There are those few who have contributed beyond what a single programmer usually does in an entire lifetime. They gave us reason to achieve something. In this blog we will take a look at some of the Greatest Programmers of All Time. Some of them are not with us right now but we can not forget them. These programmers are pioneers of the IT industry. Their contribution can never be forgotten. They are legends of IT industry and are role models of many aspiring programmers like you and me. Let's see some of the great programmers of all time.
Dennis Ritchie - Father of Digital Computing
Yes he is the one the best programmers of all time. He is the inventor of C language and Unix operating system. Today most of the programs and technologies uses C language and Unix is the base operating system, from which all the OS like Windows and Mac is created. We can say that without him all the companies like Apple and Microsoft would not exist today. Entire software industry owe a lot to this man. He is truly a father of digital computing. He won prestigious Turing Award for his research and development of Unix and also won National Medal of Technology. Unfortunately he is not with us right now but his legacy is still going on and he will be remembered forever for his contribution.
Ken Thompson - Co Inventor of Unix
Ken Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating systems. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-invented the Go programming language.
Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, his work on computer chess that included creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle.
Grace Hopper - Inventor of COBOL and the Word "BUG"
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral.In 1944, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages. She also popularized use of the term BUG (already established in other technical contexts) which frightens all the developers. There is an interesting story about how the word BUG was invented.
In early days when computers were so big and they were using big hardwares, US navy was using such computers and Grace Hopper was managing one such computer. One day computer was not working and she opened it to check it and found out that one bug was squeezed and dead in computer hardware and that stopped computer. While she was removing dead body of bug his superior came in and asked what's going and she replied "I am removing BUG" and since then word Bug is used for hardware and software failures.
Bjarne Stroustrup - Inventor of C++
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist who is credited for the creation and the development of the widely used and highly successful C++ programming language. He not only invented it, but also evolved it, all by himself, by writing its early definitions, producing its first implementation, formulating its design criteria, designing all its major facilities, processing extension proposals for standards committee and its standard textbook.
James Gosling - Inventor of Java
James Arthur Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist and an officer of the order of Canada. He has coded quite a number of programs but is widely known for his creation of the highly successful and commonly used Java programming language in 1994 as well as its original virtual machine and compiler.
Donald Knuth - Father of the Analysis of Algorithms
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician as well as a Professor Emeritus (retired professor) at Stanford University. Knuth has been dubbed as the “Father of the Analysis of Algorithms” as he has contributed to the development of rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it.
Knuth has also popularized the asymptotic notation and he is also the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system and the METAFONT font definition language and rendering system. He has contributed to several branches of theoretical computer science and has also created the Computer Modern family of typefaces.
Tim Berners-Lee - Father of World Wide Web (WWW)
Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who is renowned all across the globe because of his creation of the World Wide Web as well as the implementation of the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in November, 1989.
Tim has won multiple awards for his pioneering ingeniousness such as becoming one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame and one of five Internet and Web pioneers who have been awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. He is also the holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Margaret Hamilton - Lady who helped Mankind to Reach To Moon
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF) for systems and software design.
Linus Torvald - Inventor of Linux
Created the Linux kernel and Git, an open source version control system. Winner of numerous awards and honors, including the EFF Pioneer Award in 1998, the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal in 2000, the Millenium Technology Prize in 2012 and the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award in 2014. Also inducted into the Computer History Museum’s Hall of Fellows in 2008 and the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.
Jeff Dean - Compilers don't warn Jeff Dean. Jeff Dean warns compilers
Helped to design and implement many of Google’s large-scale distributed systems, including website crawling, indexing and searching, AdSense, MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009. 2012 winner of the ACM’s SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
Well this list is end less. But who can be the next in this list?
It's YOU and Only You.
Yes now it's your time, to register your name in this glorious list. Have a clear vision, work hard, achieve your dreams and register yourself in the list of Great Programmers of All Time.
Hello and welcome to my new blog series "Fresher to Professional".
This blog is for the beginners who are looking forward to start Career as software engineer, programmers, developers, designers. This blog will teach you real skills and attitude you need to be a successful IT professional. During my 10 years of Career I have realized that real trainings are missing when you start and that is affecting your Career in long run. I will share knowledge gained through out my Career that will help you build your Career to top notch professional level.
This is the first blog of this series and it's all about motivation. Yes motivation is the kay factor when you are starting your Career because you don't know about future and you must have heard good and bad things about the Career you are about to start. So at this point either you are excited or you are little bit suspicious about your choice or you are totally frustrated about it. Every computer graduate who is starting a Career in IT must have heard some things which are enough to discourage you. Among it the worst thing an aspiring software engineer has to listen is..
Ahh Just Another ONE
Yes this is one thing which each IT professional has to face at a start of the Career. Whenever you tell someone that I am a computer engineer they will consider you JUST ANOTHER ONE of the heard. Unfortunately it's true. With the booming IT industry lots of people choose this as Career option and lots of computer and IT engineers are graduating each year. There are lots of colleges, private institutes which offers various courses in IT and there are lots of students who choose it and come out as IT professional and it's increasing each year. So the society think that a COMPUTER ENGINEER is just another one who will start working as developer and will work for long hours with very less pay and lots of stress. And this is right at certain point of time when you are starting as a fresher you have to work hard, you have to show your dedications, you have to learn new things and most important is you have to make sure that you don't become "JUST ANOTHER ONE".
Well no this is not true,
We are not JUST ANOTHER ONE, We have potential to make a difference and be THE ONE
Do you know what's your value in IT Industry. Checkout this video.
Well, that's the Steve Balmer, former CEO of Microsoft, and he is praising you by this song, so you can understand how valuable you are.
Yes IT industry is all about developers.
Each IT professional, if trained and guided properly at start of the Career, they can be THE ONE. If you have that killer's instinct to do something different and have will power, dedications and you are willing to work hard, you can be THE ONE and make a difference. Every beginning is the small one and but the end depends on you. You can make it bigger or you can be just another one and finish it like everyone else. Do you know that the current leaders, the technology icons were once a developers or programmers just like you and me but they did something different and today they become the leaders. They started with small things but today they become giant and no one can beat them. Here are few examples.
The Infosys Team
N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora
Co-founded in 1981 by 7 Engineers, after they resigned from Patni Computer Systems.The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd." with a capital of ₹10,000 or US$250 in Model Colony, Pune as the registered office. It signed its first client, Data Basics Corporation, in New York City.In 1983. Today Infosys is the giant of Indian IT Industry. It's one of the biggest company of India with development center across the India and abroad. Today Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy is considered as a visionary and an icon of IT industry. Mr. Nandan Nilekani worked with Government of India for many IT projects including Aadhar - UIDAI.
The Apple Team
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
Apple was established on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. Later they have introduced series of personal computers like Apple 2, Lisa and most successful one Macintosh. In early days of apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak used work in Steve's Garage with a small team. They really struggled to sell their products and raise money for the new products. Today Apple is the most valuable technology company with products like iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macbook, iMac and one of the successful series of OSX operating system. They created all new market for mobile application developers.
The Google Team
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Just like Apple Google was also started in garage. Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropped out of the college to start internet search website. They worked hard to come up with unique and robust search algorithm. Once Google was founded, there was no looking back for this duo. Today Google is considered as most robust search engine and most valuable technology company. Today they have introduced many products like Gmail, Google Glass, Youtube, Self Driving Car, Google Fibre, Android and they keeps on inventing new things everyday.
The MicroSoft Team
Paul Allen and Bill Gates
Paul Allen and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion for computer programming, sought to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills. They co founded Microsoft as Software Development firm and worked with IBM on creating MS DOS. Later they have introduced their own operating system Microsoft Windows. Which can be considered as most successful operating system in the history. Today Microsoft is one the most valuable technology company. Like all of us Bill Gates and Paul Allen worked really hard in initially days. Bill Gates used to write codes for hours while they were working on MS DOS. Today lots of programmers writes code for him.
The Facebook Team
Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Stanford University Room along with his few class mates. He started it as social networking site for Stanford and today it's worldwide social networking site. He with class mates wrote millions of lines of code for Facebook website and today he is in the list of billionaires. He employs people older than him to work for him.
So the moral of the story is if you are starting your Career as a developer or programmer, you have a chance to make it big if you work really hard and if you have clear vision. You can also be like these leaders in future. Each start is small one but the end can be giant. So do not feel that you are less than doctors and managers. You are unique as a computer engineer and you have a potential to make it different and stand out from the crowd and be the ONE. So do not listen to any criticism about yourself, do not believe in all that rubbish stuff, focus on your goal and work hard, you will be successful in your IT Career. Your start is not small because
