As a professional in IT, you have several career options as an employee, freelancer, consultant or entrepreneur (business owner) among others. We will see the advantages and disadvantages of each option and then discuss how to combine them to test various paths before making such an important decision, like which career to follow.

As a professional in IT, you have several career options as an employee, freelancer, consultant or entrepreneur (business owner) among others. We will see the advantages and disadvantages of each option and then discuss how to combine them to test various paths before making such an important decision, like which career to follow.

Is it still worth studying computer science in the era of artificial intelligence?

Is it still worth studying computer science in the era of artificial intelligence?

The beginning of a junior developer’s career is not one of the easiest.

The beginning of a junior developer’s career is not one of the easiest.

Today is workday, and I decided to write a little bit about a profession that has been misrepresented in recent times. I’m a professional programmer, software developer, system analyst, software architect, but always a programmer. When I was studying, the term programmer had very little prestige. It was normally used with the connotation of someone who lacked instruction or did not have a higher education and only did what they were told to do. At that time, system analysts were kings, and they only designed systems. The programmer was responsible for small pieces of code. Database, screens, flows, everything was handed over to the programmer, who sometimes was seen as just a translator of the project into code.

Today is workday, and I decided to write a little bit about a profession that has been misrepresented in recent times. I’m a professional programmer, software developer, system analyst, software architect, but always a programmer. When I was studying, the term programmer had very little prestige. It was normally used with the connotation of someone who lacked instruction or did not have a higher education and only did what they were told to do. At that time, system analysts were kings, and they only designed systems. The programmer was responsible for small pieces of code. Database, screens, flows, everything was handed over to the programmer, who sometimes was seen as just a translator of the project into code.