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Dear Graduates, You’re Not “Junior Developers”
- grawprog 8y agoI like this. It's the way it works in trades and honestly the way you learn to become a master programmer is more similar to the way you learn to become a master tradesperson than not. Once you've learned the basics the only way to progress at programming is to to write programs and learn by reading code written by master programmers...or at least programmers better than you. Learning a trade is much the same. Once you know the basics it comes down to practice and picking up tricks and skills from people who have been doing it longer than you. It's funny I seen an article on hn a sometime recently about how programming is not like woodwork. I disagree. Programming and traded are far more similar than it might seem. In both cases the only way to mastery is constant practice and honing of your skill and honestly it's a craft some people, much like there are master woodworkers or metal workers or what have you, really are master programmers who understand not only the tools and skills of the trade but have developed their own style and, I suppose, flair for their craft that really is something special. Programming might be based on science and meth but it's as much an art as music or as much a craft as any trade. You can't pump out master programmers any more than you can pump out master wordworkers and school and theory can only get you so far without years spent creating... Well hope someone can read this at least...I really do try not to be spam...