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This whole class of problems, where there's no general consensus about how to achieve something, makes it incredibly difficult to train juniors who still have a
by don-code 5y ago
This whole class of problems, where there's no general consensus about how to achieve something, makes it incredibly difficult to train juniors who still have a one-correct-answer mindset. It makes me wonder how any of us got past it in the Java world, where there were no fewer than three commonly-accepted ways just to represent time.
Declarative languages, like SQL or (dare I say) Terraform, seem to be good teaching tools in that regard.
- racl101 5y agoI meant that trivial problems should have more consensus but even the smallest of them I find when you ask about them there's controversy.