When the suggestion for "noobs" on this is: Make your editor clean trailing whitespace on save Create a .dotfiles repo Use Puppet or Chef to automa

When the suggestion for "noobs" on this is: Make your editor clean trailing whitespace on save Create a .dotfiles repo Use Puppet or Chef to automate the configuration of your developer machine Use Vagrant or Docker to simulate your production env on your local machine I have to have a little bit of a facepalm. Trim your trailing whitespace? Set up a dotfiles repo? Learn puppet? Caveat: I'm not a developer. I'm a sysadmin. Albeit a sysadmin who writes code and knows _how to interact with developers_. After 15 years in the trade professionally I think the bigger issue is claiming that a 12 week program will make you a developer. It may teach you _development_, but that's no more accurate than saying 12 weeks administering an Apache server makes you understand Linux.