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I understand this is posted on a University website, so I guess it is ok, but gosh I've wasted way too many days of my early career chasing things that the 'sen

by nnain 7y ago

I understand this is posted on a University website, so I guess it is ok, but gosh I've wasted way too many days of my early career chasing things that the 'seniors' said I 'should' do as a programmer. This is just not true, but worse still it confuses people who are just starting. You can be an exceptional front end developer with HTML/CSS/JS scripts and not necessarily have a mini OS in your past projects.

choeger 7y ago
There is a difference between "must" and "should". Take this list as an advise on how to become better at understanding the fundamentals. A front end developer for instance could take html,js, and the DOM as gospel. Or they could try to understand their foundation and how the same concepts apply in different domains (e.g., what and why are the distinctive advantages/shortcomings of js). I prefer the latter and I think it makes me better at my job. Also it is kind of sad when a fellow developer is stuck with a problem that can easily be debugged with some OS knowledge.