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3 Skills of Quality Developer That Newbies Underestimate
When you are new, it’s important to practice every day. That is really what quality developers are doing, practicing daily. You might think, I’ll catch up on Thursday and do a bunch of hours. It doesn’t really work that way. It’s kind of like sleep. It’s better to get the required amount of time in every day. Even a small amount of time like 25 minutes time segments to start will help you to build momentum and continue the learning process. So consider the 3 Skills of Quality Developer That Newbies Underestimate in the context of deliberate practice which means every day. It’s true that coding requires deep thought and you’ll want to give yourself the time and thoughtfulness to do that, but you’ll need to build that muscle over time. So start small and continue to build. It’ll be a really effective strategy over the course of your career.
Setting up and understanding the environment
Setting up and understanding the environment is a key skill of a quality developer. Newbies want to jump right into the code and start writing, but a quality developer knows that the right code in the wrong place is the wrong code. A specific code segment is supremely affected by the environment in which it executes. So you may have everything right in your loop, but if the inputs coming in are not in the right…
