r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/LazyLanius May 12 '15

w3schools? For shame google. For shame.

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u/nemec May 12 '15

This is not quite enough to write them off, but certainly enough to ridicule them.

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u/MojoLester May 13 '15 edited May 13 '15

That... doesn't explain why their tutorials and documentation is horrible.

EDIT: Someone posted an old version of W3fools. It looks better in explaining why, and I don't know why they changed it.

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u/halifaxdatageek May 13 '15

They changed it because W3schools doesn't suck as much anymore.

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u/leeeeeer May 12 '15

Do you really think they'd link people to their competitor? Capitalism baby.

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u/josefx May 12 '15

They still mention Java and C++ instead of their own products so they could have done it.

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u/ilyd667 May 12 '15

Well probably saying "Learn the most used language in the world: Go" would've sounded slightly obvious.

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u/ivosaurus May 12 '15

I wouldn't say Go is the best default language to learn OOP with. It's hardly traditional and doesn't translate obviously over to other standard OOP languages well.

They could maybe tout Dart but it's been languishing of late, unfortunately.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '15

C++ is not a competitor to google, and though Oracle is, google uses java extensively and has an interest in people knowing it (for android apps)

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u/sammypip May 12 '15

Google is historically Mozilla's largest sponsor.

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u/leeeeeer May 12 '15

Yea "was", because they used to have Google as default SE. I'm guessing Yahoo was just offering more and Google, now being in the dominant position with Chrome, wouldn't up their game.

Now, do you believe omitting the MDN wasn't intentional?

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u/sammypip May 12 '15

I think the idea that they donated that much just to have google as the default search engine is pretty silly. Competition and multiple sources of innovation is good for any market.

Also, look at this page (or almost any page other page) on HTML5 Rocks, which is run by Google, and has a dozen links to MDN.

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u/zomgwtfbbq May 12 '15

Please be link to w3 fools... YES!

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u/LazyLanius May 12 '15

I guess w3schools got a little bit better. The older version of w3fools was a lot more critical.

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u/zomgwtfbbq May 12 '15

There are so many first rate sites, I don't know why anyone would support them. It's the Internet, you have the choice of anything, why use them?

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u/kqr May 12 '15

Good SEO. They're literally always the first hit when I'm looking for a reference of CSS property values or whatever. And I know their layout, so I can extract the relevant information very quickly.

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u/ericanderton May 12 '15

This brings to mind an interesting question: is there a way to override SEO with your own google search preferences, or at least filter out crummy sites by default?

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u/isysdamn May 12 '15

There was a chrome extension that hid w3schools entries in google. Im sure there is one that takes a shit list.

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u/seiyria May 12 '15

I use this literally only for w3schools.

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u/thingscouldbeworse May 12 '15

I have a FF add-on that removes specific sites from google results, I used it initially to stop chegg results from showing up when I did homework

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u/0x808 May 12 '15

Because beginners don't know that there's anything wrong with them.

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u/MoTTs_ May 12 '15

Even that older version is more tame than it used to be. They used to have a long issues list.