Exercise 6. Make the tapescript of the video from the previous exercise.

Exercise 7. Don’t translate like this!

Treehouse is a video-based service, offering web design training in HTML and CSS, web development (including HTML5 and Javascript), and creating iOS apps (using Objective-C and Xcode), all wrapped up in a clear and easy-to-navigate user interface. Treehouse charges a subscription for its services, but the videos are very professionally produced, and you get a wealth of lessons covering almost every aspect of web design and development. Like Treehouse, the team at Codecademy also understand the power of a badge, offering it at various key points in the training.

В деревянном доме есть видео-сервис, предлагающий веб-дизайн обучение в HTML и CSS, разработка сайтов (в том числе HTML5 и JavaScript), а также создания IOS приложений (с помощью цели-C и Xcode), вся закутанная в ясной и простой в навигации пользовательского интерфейса. В деревянном доме взимают подписку на свои услуги, но видео очень профессионально, и вы получите богатство уроков, охватывающих практически все аспекты веб-дизайна и развития. Как и в деревянном доме, команда в Кодовой Академии также понимает силу знака предлагая его на различных ключевых моментах в подготовке.

Give your translation variant.

Crossword Puzzle

Units 14-17

DOWN:

1. a software design and software architecture design pattern based on structured collections of discrete software modules, known as services, that collectively provide the complete functionality of a large software application;

1. a type of industry where the buying and selling of products or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks;

2. a category of cloud computing services that provides a computing platform and a solution stack as a service;

6 the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results;

7 sometimes referred to as "on-demand software" supplied by ISVs or "Application-Service-Providers";

8 notion refering to several related aspects of telephony and computer networks that allow the transport of traffic with special requirements.

 

ACROSS:

 

2 a word that academics use to reveal the internal of an author's reasoning;

5 a variety of different types of computing concepts that involve a large number of computers that are connected through a real-time communication network (typically the Internet);

9 a type of programming error: when too much memory is used on the call stack, when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the intended data structure; usually a fixed length buffer.

10 the fastest, easiest way to learn to code, make apps, and start a business.

 

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UNIT18.

IT Jobs

 

1. The Practice Manager uses a payroll package based on spread sheet to calculate salaries for each employee of health center.

2. Reception staff use specially tailored software developed from a database to enter all appointment dates and times for each doctor.

3. Programmer or Software developer

Description: A job that requires the development or continued development and maintenance of a software program.

Requirements: A basic to extensive understanding of a programming language. Because most job positions will require a person to develop sections of a program or the whole program, they often require several years of past experience or a degree before even considering you.

Recommendations: Learn one or more programming languages. Depending on what programs or scripts you wish to create may change the language you wish to learn. See the dictionary programming languages definition for a listing of popular programming languages and programs they create. If you need experience, creating your own software programs is a great way to learn a language and demonstrate your abilities at a job interview.

 

4. Cloud engineer. Cloud engineering is the application of engineering disciplines to cloud computing. It brings a systematic approach to the high-level concerns of commercialisation, standardisation, and governance in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems.

 

5. Quality Assurance (QA), System analyst or Tester

Description: This job requires that the employee test out all features of a product for any problems or usability issues.

Requirements: Requires that the person have a good understanding of computer software, hardware, and the product being tested.

Recommendations: Become familiar with software, hardware, and the products the company makes

 

6. Security expert

Description: Test and find vulnerabilities in a system, hardware device, or software program.

Requirements:This position is for someone who has a strong familiarity with how software, hardware, and networks work and how to exploit them. Often, you will need to have a good understanding of how the overall system works as well as good programming skills.

Recommendations:Keep up-to-date with all security news, advisories, and other related news. The majority of security vulnerabilities are through software, and in order to understand these vulnerabilities or find new security vulnerabilities, you'll need to understand how to program and have a good understand of how software works and interacts with computers

 

 

Answer the questions:

 

1. Which job requires the development or continued development and maintenance of a software program?
2. Who deals with the application of engineering disciplines to cloud computing?
3. Who tests out all features of a product for any problems or usability issues?
4. Who tests and finds vulnerabilities in a system, hardware device, or software program?

 

 

18.2. 10 IT job roles that are hardest to fill

 

By Justin James, http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-it-job-roles-that-are-hardest-to-fill/3160

The IT job market is usually a seller’s market, even in tough times like these. But some IT roles are especially difficult to fill. Here are 10 jobs that typically send companies into fits when they need to hire for them.

IT trainer

IT trainers play a unique role in the IT world, and they need a unique skill set. By itself, this position would be hard enough to fill. But add the fact that being a trainer differs in many ways from the typical IT job, along with the frequent need for travel, and you have a recipe for “tough hire.”

Project manager

The biggest problem in hiring project managers is usually self-imposed: the “requirement” of a PMP certification. Why does that make it hard to hire? It isn’t just that folks with PMP certification are expensive and tough to find. It’s the difficulty of obtaining the certification in the first place. The certification has a “chicken and egg” logic to it: To earn it, you need to be managing projects… but it can be hard to get project management work without the cert. As a result, the talent pool is artificially small, and many otherwise well-qualified candidates get filtered out.

CIO/CTO/director of IT/etc.

IT leadership roles are extremely difficult to fill. Like IT trainers, leadership positions require the candidates to have skills that just are not learned in the typical IT job. Companies are forced to hire good leaders with weak (or nonexistent) technical knowledge or to hope that a technical person can learn the leadership and business skills required to be a success. It is difficult to find someone who has good “crossover” skills and whom you feel comfortable with, making leadership positions hard to fill.

Help desk staff

The basic problem with filling help desk jobs is that they usually pay far less than the person you really want to hire will accept. Plenty of people can do a perfectly fine job with the help desk position, despite the technical skills required and its challenges for workers (the stress of metrics they have little control over, like “average time to answer calls” and ticket closure rates, dealing with angry people over a phone, etc.). But how many of them are actually going to work for what the help desk job pays?

Most companies see the help desk as a necessary evil, a cost center to be contained. And in a way, they are right. With razor thin margins in many industries, the cost of support can make or break the profitability of a company. So it is natural for them to squeeze the salaries as hard as they can. But for managers looking for well-qualified workers, those tight budgets make it impossible to get the right help, unless they find a diamond in the rough or someone with a tough job situation.

5: Specialized programmer

Device drivers, operating systems, and mobile applications: Any idea what they have in common? The developers who know how to write those kinds of software and do a good job of it are exceedingly rare — or there is a high demand for a relatively small number of developers. Some of these positions are just so specialized that only a handful of developers are doing it. Others (like mobile applications) have lots of developers out there, but the demand is just so high that the companies looking to make a hire have positions unfilled for months at a time.

Pre-sales engineer

Pre-sales engineer is another IT-related job that requires a diverse range of talents beyond the technical. To make it an even harder position to fill, it is a job that requires a lot of travel. Simply put, nothing can substitute for the hands-on demonstration when it comes to closing a deal. And on top of that, the job is almost pure customer service, often in person, which many IT people do not want to deal with, especially considering that they have other job options. A pre-sales engineer needs the heart of a salesperson wrapped in the mind of an IT pro, and that’s a tricky mix to find.

Technical writer

Now, I’m not talking about bloggers and their ilk, but the folks who do things like write product manuals and help files. There is a reason why these tasks often fall on the shoulders of the developers, even when the company is willing to spend the money on hiring a technical writer: It is hard to find people who can write coherently, in a language that the end user can grasp, and who understand the technical side of things! This isn’t a matter of hiring an English major who is “tech savvy” like people assume, either. Technical writers are hard to find, and good ones are even tougher.

Product evangelist

The product evangelists are the “face of the company” when it comes to the technical side of their business. They are the ones giving presentations at technical conferences around the world, hanging out in forums answering questions, constantly blogging, reaching out to folks on social media… and at the same time, they need to be on the cutting edge of their industry’s technical knowledge. Few IT jobs involve as much travel as product evangelist. The right person needs to have an absolute passion for the work and for the company and its specific products, as well as the technical knowledge and soft skills to handle the job. This means that even if someone is a great evangelist at one company, he or she will probably be a poor hire for any other company doing the same job.

9: IT author

Writing technical blogs and articles is often seen as an easy job, and most of us are doing it as a secondary job. (Only a few folks can put a roof over their head with this work.) There are plenty of technical people out there who can use some extra money. All the same, it’s a bear to find people who are not only willing to give it a shot, but who will stick with it long enough to really become “part of the team.”

10: Maintenance/legacy programmer

Most programmers have seen these jobs before; they are typically disguised as something else, because so few developers want them. What are they? Jobs involving the maintenance of existing applications, often ones that have been around a long time and written in a legacy technology. Few programmers are willing to take these jobs because they are the kiss of death for a career. In an industry where “cutting edge” today is “obsolete” in a few years, working with technology already considered “legacy” means that you are likely to be stuck with the job for a long, long time unless you are willing and able to reinvent yourself outside the workforce.

 

State the following sentences as true or false:

1. IT trainers, product evangelists and pre-sales engineers don’t need to travel.
2. People with PMP certification are expensive and difficult to find.
3. Leadership positions are diffucult to fill.
4. Help desk jobs offer good payment.
5. There’s a small number of specialized programmers.
6. Technical writer must write coherently, in a language that the end user can grasp, and who understands the technical side of things.
7. Writing technical blogs and articles isn’t an easy job.
8. Maintenance/legacy programmers involve the maintenance of existing applications, often written in a legacy technology.