Working together with others (i.e. pair programming) can be very useful in helping you gain alternate perspectives on how to solve different problems. Edit: I

Working together with others (i.e. pair programming) can be very useful in helping you gain alternate perspectives on how to solve different problems. Edit: I should add that I learned more in a 2 hour pair programming session as a junior dev with a senior dev than I did in a semester long programming class at university.