Hour 22How Companies Program

The goal of this hour is to give you an idea of how companies program computers. While the focus here is on larger companies working on data processing or enterprise application development, you will also learn about working with smaller companies and even technology startups.

Regardless of size, companies must coordinate their programming efforts to make the best use of their resources. This doesn’t always mean that every program wanted by every person gets written. Actually, the allocation of programming talents is one of the primary tasks of a software development manager (or other similar supervisory position). You will learn about some of the different types of available jobs and their common titles and how ...

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