Best strategy for finding work as a programmer

[BrassGear]

Does anyone know any good strategies for finding work as a programmer?

Specifically, I am looking for remote work, both contract work or commissions for custom software. What is a good way to find opportunities? What are good places to look? Is LinkedIn really the only game in town when it comes to this?

Additionally I have been wondering what others' experiences have been. What is the prevalence of scammers, and so forth?

[LBoxPO]

I am not a professional programmer and my main activity is computer graphics
and I have often heard from colleagues that they receive some of their orders on the www.fiverr.com resource.

Try creating a profile there on the topic of programming and perhaps you will be able to find some orders there in your field.
https://www.fiverr.com/categories/programming-tech?source=hplo_cat_sec_TOP&pos=1

[Thaddy]

If you are good enough, you get asked. It is just that people should know you are good enough.
I am just retired but I only wrote a job application once. In 1978 (that was way before I finished university in 1986 and post-doc 1991). Switched jobs about 4 times.
So a good network is the most important bit. Let the job come to you. Keeps you happy.
( note that most of my jobs involved middle and higher management and not 100% programming )

[jamie]

Does anyone know any good strategies for finding work as a programmer?

Specifically, I am looking for remote work, both contract work or commissions for custom software. What is a good way to find opportunities? What are good places to look? Is LinkedIn really the only game in town when it comes to this?

Additionally I have been wondering what others' experiences have been. What is the prevalence of scammers, and so forth?

To keep me in the game, I code PLC's, some micros and Computer based apps.

 Automation coding these days are getting on demand because the frontends are becoming more computer language orientated on top of the general bits registers etc.

 You should get yourself some learner PLC units, starting with Allen Bradley's, Omron, Siemens, Panasonic, Moncion, HMIS, Wonderware, integrated HMIs, etc.
 they all have needs for Sofware engineers.

[BrassGear]

Thank you. It seems I neglected to turn on reply notifications for this thread.

You should get yourself some learner PLC units, starting with Allen Bradley's, Omron, Siemens, Panasonic, Moncion, HMIS, Wonderware, integrated HMIs, etc.

Would working with things like the Arduino count towards this goal?

What language are these PLCs programmed in? Is it C, or assembler?

[ojz0r]

What language are these PLCs programmed in? Is it C, or assembler?

PLCs are mostly programmed in languages defined in the IEC 61131-3 standard. Most of them are graphical except for IL (instruction list) and ST (structured text).
IL resembles assembler and has been de facto deprecated in favour of ST. ST is loosely based on pascal-like syntax and would be easy to get started with.
However due to PLCs being mostly maintained by electricians/technicians they are usually programmed using the graphical languages to help with troubleshooting a machine/process. So using IL/ST for anything not embedded in a function block (think procedure/function) is generally frowned upon.

[BrassGear]

However due to PLCs being mostly maintained by electricians/technicians they are usually programmed using the graphical languages to help with troubleshooting a machine/process. So using IL/ST for anything not embedded in a function block (think procedure/function) is generally frowned upon.

So does it look like Blender's shader editor, or Scratch?

That's disappointing.

[ojz0r]

I would say neither.

Codesys has a quick overview of the languages: https://www.codesys.com/news-events/publications/article/which-iec-61131-3-programming-language-is-best-part-1.html