Eric Roby
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It's important to be flexible and eager to learn. Think of programming languages as tools to fix problems. Learning how to write code can be simple, but understanding the deeper concepts takes more work. What concepts sounded easy until you dove in?
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Shubham Saxena
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The only concept which I focus upon is solving the business problem. If it could be solved without writing a single line of code, I will go with that one. The main focus should be building systems which solve a pain point and this system should cost minimal effort and financial investment and should be iterable. I won't say that this is a single skill but rather a combination of those which comes with the number of projects you work on. I have also noticed that many a times when things break that's when I learn something, but those breaks can be rectified quickly and do not create major risks :)
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Recursion 😋😅
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Yoo Jin (Yoon) Bae
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Dns lol
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Ross Tomsic
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None of us get paid to code. We get paid (at least when the market allows it 😅) to find solutions and make the thing do the thing. Coding is just a means to make it happen.
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Brian Dordevic
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Flexibility is a soft skill that anyone who wants to be successful needs to master.
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Ryan Rodemoyer
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Attempted a POC at a http monitoring app to track service uptime/availability ... tbh it gets challenging pretty quickly and more difficult than I gave it credit for.
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Gregor Ojstersek
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I think we as engineers are wired to be be uncurable optimists :) A LOT of times it's like: Ok, that looks easy, but then when we actualy start diving into it, we see that it's not that easy and takes more time than you expect.
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Emmanuel Samson
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Just like a craftsman, investing in tools to do the work efficiently, goes a long way in impacting the quality of work to be delivered, and Programming languages aren’t different as well. Thanks for sharing these insights Eric Roby 👏🏼
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Sorting algorithms and data structures
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Promises, Recursion & closures
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