1 year ago

Tech companies would do well recruiting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities, said a graduate of HBCU Tennessee State University who has made it big. Moreover, the HBCU environment provided a safe and nurturing environment for students to become https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineer-vs-software-engineer/.

I wasn’t intimidated by being a complete tech noob because everyone else in my courses was in the same boat.

This was when Java was relatively new, version 2 to be exact, so enterprise companies were just starting to use the language.

“I’d also conduct workshops, give talks, and write blog posts about software development in Java,” Jones said.