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Tag Archives: programmer
Ada Lovelace and Brazil’s female IT pros
When I was studying computer science at college in the UK, one of the things I had to learn was how to write software in the programming language Ada. It’s quite hard compared to languages such as BASIC or C, the languages … Continue reading
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To be or not to be: English is the question
Think of all the keywords you know from computer programming languages; if, then, else, print, run… all of them are English. But programming languages aside, why is English so important for the IT industry in Brazil?
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Tagged brasscom, englisoft, ielts, jairo avritchir, keyword, mnc, multinational, programmer, senac, softex, toefl, us
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State of Brazil IT: English for tech professionals
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This chapter of our report State of Brazil IT discusses the language … Continue reading →