What advice would you give to someone who is trying to teach themselves software development skills? I’m doing that right now, and I’m finding it easy to understand, yet difficult to implement in computer code. I want to move onto more advanced stuff, but I feel that I don’t have enough experience quite yet. What skills/courses would you recommend I take? How did you get better on your coding journey? Any tips to make the process go faster? Thanks in advance!

  • russ@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    One thing i undervalued for most of my career was just reading code.

    Get into the habit of digging into open source repos that catch your curiousity, and try to grok the way the project is layed out, what namespaces/files exist, what some of the core functions are, where the complexity is housed.

    It’s all about getting exposure to patterns, especially if there aren’t other people to work with in your day to day.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t you think being exposed to subpar code can lead you to stunt your growth? Not all code is created equally, or in ideal circumstances.