Some tips for stepping into the software engineering? What technologies are commonly used in the software companies?

Question

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Answer 1

c++, and Java.
PHP, Javascript for web development
Python and Ruby, if you are trendding
Furthermore, the language is not so important
Important is than you can solve interesting problems

Answer 2

Software engineering is a very broad field. You can't just take one technology and say you are a software engineer.

Before doing your first program, you need to know the following:

What is a pseudo code?
What are algorithms?
Why are algorithms important?
What is time complexity?
What is the importance of time complexity??
What is data?
What is information?
What is a DB?
What is a RDBMS?
What is logic?
What is process management?
What is project management?
How does an operating system work?
Given a problem, what is the best approach to solve it?
What is used case diagram?
What is UML?
How softwares differ?
Why softwares differ?
what is UML?
What is the importance of UML?
What is interfacing?
What are some of the different types of interfacing?
........and the list goes on

Once you have learned most of it, then you might decide on taking up a programming language to call yourself a software engineer