I would love to tell you new developers that the rat race is full of inspiration and doing what you love, but that would be a lie. I work for a gre...
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
One of the most prevalent problem I see in the industry is that people stop learning and simply become a machine that codes 8 hours a day. It's not that they didn't get good grades at uni, some did. They learned and worked on only what the teacher told them to without expanding their knowledge through their own powers, without asking questions, without trying different things, without pushing their limits.
I think that is what you need to do in order to make university really worth your time in programming.
Especially if that student is a valedictorian and the client assumes that he/she can finish a finished product in less than weeks.
I tried different projects. most of them are half-baked and lazy to finish.
One thing I failed in my college is, there are no collaboration. I was expecting to have a pair-programming basis to develop my skills especially working on a project. But in my standing point, they're waiting for me to finish the project and never helped me.
Yes, I failed a lot, but that doesn't stop me from continuing my passion.(I never failed my subjects. I failed because I wasted a lot of time learning it and I won't be using it after I graduate).
Before I was learning web development,(This wasn't taught in college) and Mobile development(Still didn't taught in class because our teacher was lazy and had favoritism for his/her students). But still it's still worth learning new technologies even though this won't be credited in my curriculum.
My Thoughts
Overall I regret the school I went and I want to learn new technologies as soon as I graduate. This was very helpful for me to realize that there can be a lot of opportunities and not depend on what my grades are in the curriculum.
Bravo! This was fantastic. Very relatable. I have to do a little better with the family one.
Thank you very much Derrick.
Very helpful.
Actually writing code and fixing bugs is the best way not only to learn but also to get comfortable with programming
Ah, UALR. I never graduated. Great school, though! ... Also, great article.
Great article man!! Here in Brasil its exactly the same way. I have learned a lot mantaining legacy code...but to keep myself updated, i had to learn new approaches by my own
That LotR reference made my day.
Great post man!
Great post, Derrick!
About the item five, is so true, I see many developers are accept your monotone jobs and don't want to learn something new.