Part 1Choosing Your Market
You’re about to make a big investment. It may not be a lot of money, but it’s your time—your life. Many of us just float down the stream of our careers, letting the current take us where it may. We just happen to get into Java or Visual Basic, and then our employers finally spring for a training class on one of the latest industry buzzwords. So, we float down that path for a while until something else is handed to us. Our career is one big series of undirected coincidences.
In The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master [HT00], Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt talk about programming by coincidence. Most programmers can relate to the idea: you start working on something, add a little code here, and add a little more ...
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