Microsoft Office Training Classes in Trenton, New Jersey
Learn Microsoft Office in Trenton, NewJersey and surrounding areas via our hands-on, expert led courses. All of our classes either are offered on an onsite, online or public instructor led basis. Here is a list of our current Microsoft Office related training offerings in Trenton, New Jersey: Microsoft Office Training
Microsoft Office Training Catalog
Course Directory [training on all levels]
- .NET Classes
- Agile/Scrum Classes
- Ajax Classes
- Android and iPhone Programming Classes
- Blaze Advisor Classes
- C Programming Classes
- C# Programming Classes
- C++ Programming Classes
- Cisco Classes
- Cloud Classes
- CompTIA Classes
- Crystal Reports Classes
- Design Patterns Classes
- DevOps Classes
- Foundations of Web Design & Web Authoring Classes
- Git, Jira, Wicket, Gradle, Tableau Classes
- IBM Classes
- Java Programming Classes
- JBoss Administration Classes
- JUnit, TDD, CPTC, Web Penetration Classes
- Linux Unix Classes
- Machine Learning Classes
- Microsoft Classes
- Microsoft Development Classes
- Microsoft SQL Server Classes
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server Classes
- Microsoft Windows Server Classes
- Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop Database Classes
- Perl Programming Classes
- Python Programming Classes
- Ruby Programming Classes
- Security Classes
- SharePoint Classes
- SOA Classes
- Tcl, Awk, Bash, Shell Classes
- UML Classes
- VMWare Classes
- Web Development Classes
- Web Services Classes
- Weblogic Administration Classes
- XML Classes
- Ruby on Rails
2 May, 2024 - 3 May, 2024 - Enterprise Linux System Administration
10 June, 2024 - 14 June, 2024 - Object-Oriented Programming in C# Rev. 6.1
24 June, 2024 - 28 June, 2024 - Introduction to Spring 5 (2022)
15 July, 2024 - 17 July, 2024 - RED HAT SATELLITE V6 (FOREMAN/KATELLO) ADMINISTRATION
24 June, 2024 - 27 June, 2024 - See our complete public course listing
Blog Entries publications that: entertain, make you think, offer insight
The original article was posted by Michael Veksler on Quora
A very well known fact is that code is written once, but it is read many times. This means that a good developer, in any language, writes understandable code. Writing understandable code is not always easy, and takes practice. The difficult part, is that you read what you have just written and it makes perfect sense to you, but a year later you curse the idiot who wrote that code, without realizing it was you.
The best way to learn how to write readable code, is to collaborate with others. Other people will spot badly written code, faster than the author. There are plenty of open source projects, which you can start working on and learn from more experienced programmers.
Readability is a tricky thing, and involves several aspects:
- Never surprise the reader of your code, even if it will be you a year from now. For example, don’t call a function max() when sometimes it returns the minimum().
- Be consistent, and use the same conventions throughout your code. Not only the same naming conventions, and the same indentation, but also the same semantics. If, for example, most of your functions return a negative value for failure and a positive for success, then avoid writing functions that return false on failure.
- Write short functions, so that they fit your screen. I hate strict rules, since there are always exceptions, but from my experience you can almost always write functions short enough to fit your screen. Throughout my carrier I had only a few cases when writing short function was either impossible, or resulted in much worse code.
- Use descriptive names, unless this is one of those standard names, such as i or it in a loop. Don’t make the name too long, on one hand, but don’t make it cryptic on the other.
- Define function names by what they do, not by what they are used for or how they are implemented. If you name functions by what they do, then code will be much more readable, and much more reusable.
- Avoid global state as much as you can. Global variables, and sometimes attributes in an object, are difficult to reason about. It is difficult to understand why such global state changes, when it does, and requires a lot of debugging.
- As Donald Knuth wrote in one of his papers: “Early optimization is the root of all evil”. Meaning, write for readability first, optimize later.
- The opposite of the previous rule: if you have an alternative which has similar readability, but lower complexity, use it. Also, if you have a polynomial alternative to your exponential algorithm (when N > 10), you should use that.
Use standard library whenever it makes your code shorter; don’t implement everything yourself. External libraries are more problematic, and are both good and bad. With external libraries, such as boost, you can save a lot of work. You should really learn boost, with the added benefit that the c++ standard gets more and more form boost. The negative with boost is that it changes over time, and code that works today may break tomorrow. Also, if you try to combine a third-party library, which uses a specific version of boost, it may break with your current version of boost. This does not happen often, but it may.
Don’t blindly use C++ standard library without understanding what it does - learn it. You look at
documentation at it tells you that its complexity is O(1), amortized. What does that mean? How does it work? What are benefits and what are the costs? Same with std::vector::push_back()
, and with std::map
. Knowing the difference between these two maps, you’d know when to use each one of them.std::unordered_map
Never call
or new
directly, use delete
and [cost c++]std::make_shared[/code] instead. Try to implement std::make_unique
yourself, in order to understand what they actually do. People do dumb things with these types, since they don’t understand what these pointers are.usique_ptr, shared_ptr, weak_ptr
Every time you look at a new class or function, in boost or in std, ask yourself “why is it done this way and not another?”. It will help you understand trade-offs in software development, and will help you use the right tool for your job. Don’t be afraid to peek into the source of boost and the std, and try to understand how it works. It will not be easy, at first, but you will learn a lot.
Know what complexity is, and how to calculate it. Avoid exponential and cubic complexity, unless you know your N is very low, and will always stay low.
Learn data-structures and algorithms, and know them. Many people think that it is simply a wasted time, since all data-structures are implemented in standard libraries, but this is not as simple as that. By understanding data-structures, you’d find it easier to pick the right library. Also, believe it or now, after 25 years since I learned data-structures, I still use this knowledge. Half a year ago I had to implemented a hash table, since I needed fast serialization capability which the available libraries did not provide. Now I am writing some sort of interval-btree, since using std::map, for the same purpose, turned up to be very very slow, and the performance bottleneck of my code.
Notice that you can’t just find interval-btree on Wikipedia, or stack-overflow. The closest thing you can find is Interval tree, but it has some performance drawbacks. So how can you implement an interval-btree, unless you know what a btree is and what an interval-tree is? I strongly suggest, again, that you learn and remember data-structures.
These are the most important things, which will make you a better programmer. The other things will follow.
With the rise of the smart phone, many people who have long seen themselves as non-gamers have began to download and play to occupy themselves throughout the day. If you're a game developer who has a history of writing your code in C#, then perhaps this still emerging market is something you should consider taking advantage of. This, however, will require the familiarization with other programming languages.
One option for moving away from the C# language is to learn Java. Java is the programming used for apps on the android platform, billions of phones run on this programming language.
If you want to break into the android market, then learning Java is an absolute must.
There are both some pros and some cons to learning java. Firstly, if you already know C# or other languages and understand how they work, then java will be relatively easy to learn due to having similar, but quite simplified, syntax to C-based languages, the class library is large and standardized, but also very well written, and you might find that it will improve the performance and portability of your creations. Not to mention, learning java opens you up to the entirety of the android app and game market, a very large and still growing market that would otherwise stay closed off to you. That's too much ad and sale money to risk missing out on.
The few cons that come with learning the language is that, when coming from other languages, the syntax may take some getting used to. This is true for most languages. The other problem is that you must be careful with the specifics of how you write your code. While java can be written in a very streamlined fashion, it's also possible to write working, but bulky, code that will slow down your programs. Practice makes perfect, and the knowledge to avoid such pitfalls within the language.
If you wish to develop for the iOS on the other hand, knowledge of Objective C is required. The most compelling reason to learn Objective C is the market that it will open you up to. According to the website AndroidAuthority.com, in the article "Google play vs. Apple app store", users of iPhones and other iOS devices are much more likely to spend money on apps rather than downloading free ones.
Though learning Objective C might be a far jump from someone who currently writes in C#, it's certainly learn-able with a little bit of practice.
What are a few unique pieces of career advice that nobody ever mentions?
Good non-programmer jobs for people with software developer experience
The name placard in your cube might not say anything about sales, but the truth is that everyone, employed as such or not, is a salesperson at some point every single day. In the traditional sense, this could mean something like pitching your company’s solutions to a client. In the less-traditional sense, it could mean convincing your child to eat their vegetables. Yet for those two drastically different examples and everything in between, there is a constant for successful sellers: unveiling the “Why.”
Spending time and energy making prospects understand why you do what you do instead of exactly what it is you do or how you do it is not a new concept. But I’m a firm believer that proven concepts, no matter how old and frequently referenced they are, can’t be repeated enough. This idea has recently and fervently been popularized by marketer, author, and thinker extraordinaire Simon Sinek via his 2009 book, Start With Why. You can learn about him here on Wikipedia or here on his site. To begin, let me suggest that you watch Sinek’s TED talk on Starting With Why here on YouTube before reading any further. I’ll let him take care of the bulk of explaining the basics, and then will offer some ideas of my own to back this up in the real world and explore the best ways to start thinking this way and apply it to your business.
First, a little on me. After all, if I were to practice what Sinek preaches, it would follow that I explain why it is I’m writing this piece so that you, the reader, not only have a good reason to pay attention but also understand what drives me on a deeper level. So, who am I? I’m an entrepreneur in the music space. I do freelance work in the realms of copywriting, business development, and marketing for artists and industry / music-tech folks, but my main project is doing all of the above for a project I’ve been on the team for since day one called Presskit.to. In short, Presskit.to builds digital portfolios that artists of all kinds can use to represent themselves professionally when pitching their projects to gatekeepers like label reps, casting directors, managers, the press, etc. This core technology is also applicable to larger entertainment industry businesses and fine arts education institutions in enterprise formats, and solves a variety of the problems they’re facing.
Not interesting? I don’t blame you for thinking so, if you did. That’s because I just gave you a bland overview of what we do, instead of why we do it. What if, instead, I told you that myself and everyone I work with is an artist of some sort and believes that the most important thing you can do in life is create; that our technology exists to make creators’ careers more easily sustainable. Or, another approach, that we think the world is a better place when artists can make more art, and that because our technology was built to help artists win more business, we’re trying our best to do our part. Only you can be the judge, but I think that sort of pitch is more compelling. It touches on the emotions responsible for decision making that Sinek outlines in his Ted Talk, rather than the practical language-based reasons like pricing, technicalities, how everything works to accomplish given goals, etc. These things are on the outside of the golden circle Sinek shows us for a reason – they only really matter if you’ve aligned your beliefs with a client’s first. Otherwise these kind of tidbits are gobbledygook, and mind-numbingly boring gobbledygook at that.
Outsourcing IT needs in the corporate world has become extremely popular because it is cost-efficient and it gives IT resources to companies that may not otherwise be able to afford them. Another positive side effect of IT outsourcing is that it has brought many technology jobs back to the United States.
As convenient and patriotic as IT outsourcing has become, it also have several limitations that have caused many companies to re-think the idea of funding their own internal IT group. It is important for a company to be completely familiar with these limitations before developing any kind of company policy in regards to IT.
The Customer Could Outgrow The Outsource Company
When an IT outsourcing company first takes on a new client, the relationship is beneficial to both sides. But things can start to get inconvenient for the client when the client's business starts to outgrow the capabilities of the IT outsource group.
An IT outsourcing company can become entrenched in the daily routine of its clients, which is great at first. But when the IT company can no longer keep pace with the growth of its clients, then the clients are stuck trying to find a new solution and keep track of its own IT assets at the same time.
The IT Outsourcing Company Lacks The Necessary Technical Expertise
IT outsourcing clients like to believe that their support company knows everything there is to know about computers and the Internet. But every IT support company has its areas of expertise and they have the technical areas where they are not quite as strong. If the client starts to experience needs from the areas where the IT outsourcing company is not so strong, then that can become a significant business issue.
This problem can be amplified if the client is a small business experiencing growth. An IT outsourcing company is not as likely to bring on new personnel for a smaller client, which leaves the client without a solution.
The Client Losses A Measure Of Control Over Its Data
No matter how large or successful an IT outsourcing company may be, there will always be the limitation of client security and the protection of critical customer data. All it takes is one rogue employee of the IT outsourcing company to compromise all of the client's critical data.
Some IT outsourcing companies have safeguards put in place to try and prevent client data compromise, but those safeguards are limited by how much access the IT company has to the client network. In most cases, that access has to be comprehensive for the IT outsourcing company to be able to do its job.
Outsourcing IT responsibilities can take a lot of stress off of a client and allow that client to operate his business by focusing on his core competencies. But there are limitations to IT outsourcing that could make it necessary for a client to do his own IT support and pay the extra costs.
Tech Life in New Jersey
Company Name | City | Industry | Secondary Industry |
---|---|---|---|
HCB, Inc. | Paramus | Retail | Office Supplies Stores |
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | Parsippany | Travel, Recreation and Leisure | Hotels, Motels and Lodging |
Realogy Corporation | Parsippany | Real Estate and Construction | Real Estate Agents and Appraisers |
Church and Dwight Co., Inc. | Trenton | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Other |
Curtiss-Wright Corporation | Parsippany | Manufacturing | Aerospace and Defense |
American Water | Voorhees | Energy and Utilities | Water Treatment and Utilities |
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. | Teaneck | Computers and Electronics | IT and Network Services and Support |
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. - AandP | Montvale | Retail | Grocery and Specialty Food Stores |
COVANCE INC. | Princeton | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Pharmaceuticals |
K. Hovnanian Companies, LLC. | Red Bank | Real Estate and Construction | Architecture,Engineering and Design |
Burlington Coat Factory Corporation | Burlington | Retail | Clothing and Shoes Stores |
GAF Materials Corporation | Wayne | Manufacturing | Concrete, Glass, and Building Materials |
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC | Parsippany | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
Actavis, Inc | Parsippany | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Pharmaceuticals |
Hudson City Savings Bank | Paramus | Financial Services | Banks |
Celgene Corporation | Summit | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Biotechnology |
Cytec Industries Inc. | Woodland Park | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
Campbell Soup Company | Camden | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
Covanta Holding Corporation | Morristown | Energy and Utilities | Energy and Utilities Other |
New Jersey Resources Corporation | Wall Township | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated | Madison | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Diagnostic Laboratories |
Rockwood Holdings Inc. | Princeton | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
Heartland Payment Systems, Incorporated | Princeton | Financial Services | Credit Cards and Related Services |
IDT Corporation | Newark | Telecommunications | Wireless and Mobile |
John Wiley and Sons, Inc | Hoboken | Media and Entertainment | Newspapers, Books and Periodicals |
Bed Bath and Beyond | Union | Retail | Retail Other |
The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. | Secaucus | Retail | Clothing and Shoes Stores |
Hertz Corporation | Park Ridge | Travel, Recreation and Leisure | Rental Cars |
Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated | Newark | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Selective Insurance Group, Incorporated | Branchville | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
Avis Budget Group, Inc. | Parsippany | Travel, Recreation and Leisure | Rental Cars |
Prudential Financial, Incorporated | Newark | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
Merck and Co., Inc. | Whitehouse Station | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Pharmaceuticals |
Honeywell International Inc. | Morristown | Manufacturing | Aerospace and Defense |
C. R. Bard, Incorporated | New Providence | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Medical Supplies and Equipment |
Sealed Air Corporation | Elmwood Park | Manufacturing | Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing |
The Dun and Bradstreet Corp. | Short Hills | Business Services | Data and Records Management |
The Chubb Corporation | Warren | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
Catalent Pharma Solutions Inc | Somerset | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech Other |
Becton, Dickinson and Company | Franklin Lakes | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Medical Supplies and Equipment |
NRG Energy, Incorporated | Princeton | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
TOYS R US, INC. | Wayne | Retail | Department Stores |
Johnson and Johnson | New Brunswick | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Pharmaceuticals |
Automatic Data Processing, Incorporated (ADP) | Roseland | Business Services | HR and Recruiting Services |
training details locations, tags and why hsg
The Hartmann Software Group understands these issues and addresses them and others during any training engagement. Although no IT educational institution can guarantee career or application development success, HSG can get you closer to your goals at a far faster rate than self paced learning and, arguably, than the competition. Here are the reasons why we are so successful at teaching:
- Learn from the experts.
- We have provided software development and other IT related training to many major corporations in New Jersey since 2002.
- Our educators have years of consulting and training experience; moreover, we require each trainer to have cross-discipline expertise i.e. be Java and .NET experts so that you get a broad understanding of how industry wide experts work and think.
- Discover tips and tricks about Microsoft Office programming
- Get your questions answered by easy to follow, organized Microsoft Office experts
- Get up to speed with vital Microsoft Office programming tools
- Save on travel expenses by learning right from your desk or home office. Enroll in an online instructor led class. Nearly all of our classes are offered in this way.
- Prepare to hit the ground running for a new job or a new position
- See the big picture and have the instructor fill in the gaps
- We teach with sophisticated learning tools and provide excellent supporting course material
- Books and course material are provided in advance
- Get a book of your choice from the HSG Store as a gift from us when you register for a class
- Gain a lot of practical skills in a short amount of time
- We teach what we know…software
- We care…