Getting a Coding Job For Dummies. Nikhil Abraham

find email addresses is .+@.+\..+. Much like the * wildcard character, each symbol represents a pattern to match. I show it here only as an example, so don’t let the code intimidate you. This regular expression first looks for a least one character before and after the @ symbol, and at least one character before and after a period that appears following the @ symbol. This pattern matches the [email protected] email address format.

      

David Zvenyach, a government lawyer and computer programmer, has created two websites of interest to lawyers. The first site, SCOTUS Servo, logs a message whenever the Supreme Court changes an already issued opinion and is available at https://twitter.com/scotus_servo. The second site, Coding for Lawyers, teaches lawyers code that could be helpful in the practice of law and is available at http://codingforlawyers.com.

      Finding a New Coding Job

      The career changer looking to transition to a coding job can choose from a variety of roles. This section describes the most popular coding jobs today. In these roles at the entry level, your coding knowledge will be used daily. As you become more skilled and senior, however, your people-management responsibilities will increase while the number of lines of code you write will decrease. For example, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the code for the initial version of Facebook and continued to write code for two years after the website launched, after which he stopped coding for almost six years to focus on managing the team’s growth.