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Discussion on: The Harsh Reality for JS Developers: If You Don't Study The Fundamentals You Will Be Just Another “Coder”

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Othman

Do you mind expanding more on the idea of learning fundamentals?
like fundamentals of what, exactly? Since you've mentioned that languages and frameworks change and it's futile to try to stay on top of them, it leaves me wondering what are these low-level fundamentals that you are referring to.

Thanks for the article it was an enjoyable read...

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Pascal Thormeier

Most likely that's the underlying paradigms, concepts of languages and frameworks, design patterns and - at the most fundamental level - maths. Seriously, understanding the maths behind computer science brings a whole lot of understanding as to why we do certain things the way we do it. Set theory, for example, or even some calculus and linear algebra help big time.

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