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How to Prepare for a Python Developer Interview

How to Prepare for a Python Developer Interview

Python developer interview

Python job boards are always busy. It is one of the most popular programming languages with seasoned developers, as well as newcomers in the field.

Python is now the second-most popular programming language in the world, coming in just behind JavaScript, according to RedMonk. There are an enormous number of fields you could program for. Do spend time considering where your interests lie.
For example, Python is used in algorithmic trading and popular platforms like Interactive Brokers enable connections to live markets using Python. Top research organizations like NASA and CERN use it. Industrial Light and Magic uses Python to support their special effects work. Python is used extensively at Google and they are looking to hire more developers with this skill.

First Steps

When you find a Python developer vacancy, you need to bag an interview. This is typically done Continue reading “How to Prepare for a Python Developer Interview”

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How to Set and Achieve Your 2018 Postgraduate Goals

Happy new year! From Postgraduate Nigeria, its better late than never. So happy 2018 once again, sorry for the absence. Surely this year will be greater than the previous by Gods grace. But we have to make it happen, specifically in terms of chasing your Postgraduate goals. Now is the time to plan and strategize for the long year ahead. This is beyond resolutions and cheap wishes. To advance in your postgraduate course/path, you must have 2018 postgraduate goals. That brings the question

WHAT ARE YOUR 2018 POSTGRADUATE GOALS?

It won’t be a bad idea to know what goals are, before narrowing down. Goals are stated statements of intended actions. It is a TO-DO list. Thus, 2018 Postgraduate goals are actions and achievements that should have been accomplished by year end 2018. It is best written down or typed into soft copy. The 2018 Postgraduate goals should inspire and motivates you to drive Continue reading “How to Set and Achieve Your 2018 Postgraduate Goals”

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Journey to my Doctorate Degree

A Nigerian-South African, Odilile PL Ayodele shares briefly steps toward earning a doctorate degree in a South African University. She is a wife, and mother of two good children, this adds a lively twist to her postgraduate journey.
Article was originaly posted on Sayas Blog.
I have always been interested in how culture and context intersect and affect every part of human interaction. I was born to a South African mother and Nigerian father and learned practical ‘diplomacy 101’ within my extended family.
I am currently finishing up my doctoral studies with the SARChi Chair for African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg. I am a pilot’s wife and have two small children.
My journey to my doctorate isn’t the most conventional: I earned a Masters degree in International Relations from WITS, I went to work (because that is what was expected from me) then decided to be a stay-at-home mum (not so expected) while I reimagined what I wanted my future to look like. Unlike, many of my colleagues, I undertook the PhD not for prestige, or to begin the arduous journey towards the increasingly elusive tenured position, but rather to redirect my path and gain a new set of skills.
This journey has given me a lot more in my professional and personal life than I could have ever imagined; I am definitely not the same person coming out that I was going in.