Tens of thousands of coders today work from home, are their own bosses, and earn six figures in the process. They are freelance coders with their own business.
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does an iOS App Developer Do? An iOS app developer is a programmer who focuses on software creation for Apple mobile devices such as iPhones or wearables such as Apple Watches. Most mobile app developers create smartphone apps for the … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Computer Science Research Scientist Do? A computer science researcher and scientist identifies and answers open research questions in computer science. They apply scientific reasoning and research techniques to push the state-of-the-art forward in various fields such as machine … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is an Embedded Applications Engineer? An embedded systems engineer applies software development and embedded systems knowledge to design, create, develop, debug, and maintain embedded applications and products. Other terms with similar job descriptions are often used interchangeably: Embedded systems engineer … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Mobile App Developer Do? A mobile app developer is a programmer who focuses on software creation for mobile devices such as smartphones or wearables. Most mobile app developers create smartphone apps for the Android, macOS, or Windows mobile … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Desktop Developer? Let’s have a look at the definition first: A desktop developer is a software developer creating software applications for desktop-based operating systems like macOS, Windows, and Linux. In some cases, these applications don’t require an uninterrupted … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: what is game development? What Is Game Development? Let’s answer the question that may be obvious to you first: what is game development in the first place? I tried to come up with an efficient 1-paragraph answer that improves on multiple … Read more
Before I show you the top 20 skills of a DevOps engineer, let’s quickly have a look at three concise definitions of DevOps first! DevOps is short for software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). Definition from Atlassian: DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, in order that they … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Data Scientist Do? Data scientists use data to find quantifiable answers to questions that often need to be found as well! For example, they not only find the answer to the question “How can company ABC make more … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Does a Product Manager Do? A product manager (PM) identifies customer needs and communicates “success metrics” with the internal team building the product. By understanding the customer needs and what a successful product looks like, the product manager is an … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Full-Stack Web Developer? A full-stack web developer works both with back-end and front-end web technologies. Full-stack developers have skills in all those fields so they often take crucial roles in overseeing the technical implementation of large web projects. … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Back-end Web Developer? A web developer is a programmer who specializes in the development of websites or applications viewed on web browsers, mobile devices, and large desktop screens that are transported over private or public networks such as … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Front-end Web Developer? A web developer is a programmer who specializes in the development of websites or applications viewed on web browsers, mobile devices, and large desktop screens that are transported over private or public networks such as … Read more