I’m graduating with a CS degree but I don’t feel like I know how to program.
It seems to me that people that really are meant to be programmers already started before college. At least that's been the case with guys I've worked with that actually knew what the hell they were doing.<p>No offense to this guy but the reality is, if you are not into this stuff before you started college (aka writing your own programs because a) it's cool, and b) you got tired of not having a program that did what you need, etc), then it's a pretty brutal career path.<p>Think about it this way, most good/great programmers are just coders because it's how they've always been. If you are just getting into this industry because it's a good career path then you have to realize you are going against guys like me who started programming the Atari 800 when I was a kid because, well it was fun and just seemed right.<p>I wish him luck, but this isn't 1998 any more and companies aren't going to just hire you off the street just because you have a CS degree. The competition level for jobs right now is higher than it's been for a long time. With that said, he can certainly make this work, he just needs to start coding on his own to learn and grow.