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How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self

posted by janrinok on Sunday December 04 2016, @10:42PM   
from the being-a-Buzzard dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Getting started the right way as a developer is tough, so I wrote you a letter I'd love to have received some ten years ago.

Here's my five minute how-to guide on how to be productive and enjoy what I do while making decent living.

Getting a diploma does not mean the end of studying

Holding that shiny piece of paper you worked so hard for in your hands? Congrats!

In reality, you are just getting started. While your official studies are over, it does not mean that you do not need to learn new tricks anymore. Quite the contrary, actually: modern software evolves so fast that you need to learn new things every day to stay current. It's a good idea to come up with a daily routine of checking what's new in your field. For developers, Hackernews and Proggit are good for this. Ask what your colleagues read.

The real gems – and most satisfying lessons – lie in the comments section. When browsing Proggit, I recommend reading the comments before committing fifteen minutes to reading a nicely titled (or click-baited) article. Do this. Do this daily. Even on the weekends. You will thank yourself in a year.

Sound advice?

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Original Submission

• prove itprove it (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @11:05PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @11:05PM (#437004)

  Oh so you read Hacker News like the trendy coders, do you? You're obviously lying, because I can tell just by looking at you, you're not a coder. Real coders don't have beards, and real coders don't have white skin. I'm not even going to look at your blog to see what you you copied and pasted from somewhere, and I'm sure your GitHub profile is full of code you stole from projects you didn't work on. Get out of here, and don't come back.

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• Re:prove itRe:prove it (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 04 2016, @11:33PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday December 04 2016, @11:33PM (#437009) Homepage

  Guffaw.

  But I share your skepticism, fellow -- Many like myself had a strong background in electronics before resigning ourselves to this nonsense.

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  • Re:prove it(Score: 1) by nethead on Monday December 05 2016, @05:09AM

    by nethead (4970) <joe@nethead.com> on Monday December 05 2016, @05:09AM (#437062) Homepage

    Same here, I started out in broadcast engineering before the computer stuff.

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    How did my SN UID end up over 3 times my /. UID?

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• Re:prove it(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday December 04 2016, @11:51PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday December 04 2016, @11:51PM (#437013) Homepage Journal

  *Scratches his beard while looking at his pale arms*

  Wish I'd known twenty some odd years ago that I wasn't a real code monkey. Would have saved me a lot of time.

  Oh well, at least this means I can quit playing with SN code and concentrate on my professional fisherman ambitions.

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  My rights don't end where your fear begins.

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