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Discussion on: What was your first year as developer/designer like? Got any advice?

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Eddy Ekofo

Learn Design Patterns (for OOP, SOLID principles). This was the make and break for me. This will make your code maintainable or not. Learn to work on a team, Learn the Agile tools which your team uses (e.g. Jira, BitBucket, GitHub etc.). Finally, read and learn of the best principles in your domain. For me, as a C++ developers, my biggest was learning to smart pointers and avoid segmentation faults etc. which is the equivalent to NullPointerException in Java. There are more but in brief this was what helped me jumped over many hurdles and still helps me. God bless.