It's almost 2019 and there are some amazing things coming down the pipeline in the world of programming. But for many new developers the prospect o...
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20. Give yourself time to work through this incredibly thoughtful list 😀
If you don't have a mentor, that's OK! If your resume or portfolio is light or even non existent, that's OK! (I've been at this for 6 years and still don't really have a portfolio) The fact that you are thinking about these things is a huge win! Given time and some hard work you can accomplish all of these!
Reading your comment was the exact kind of encouragement I needed today :)
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Such good advice! Thanks for putting this list together, Emma!
I think the mind tricks in here (dealing with imposter syndrome, getting involved with a new community, asking for help, etc.) are the toughest ones to master, but also the most valuable/rewarding to get a handle on. These are things that apply not only to software engineering and professional development, but also to any area of one's life where improvement and mastery is the goal.
In my experience, it doesn't matter if you're self-taught and new to the game, or decades into it with all the degrees and experience, those things can still be challenges you have to face on a regular basis. In fact, if you don't ever face those things, it might be that you're not pushing yourself hard enough.
Getting comfortable being uncomfortable is a great skill to build, as growth and learning tend to happen outside of one's comfort zone.
As soon as you start feeling like the expert and like you have all the answers, it's probably time to start working on mastering a new technology.
It's also good to remember that we're all new to it every time a new technology comes out or gets chosen for a project we're working on. As such, it's important to focus on oneself and doing the best job we can do with whatever we're currently working on, rather than comparing ourselves to others and measuring our success against others' skill sets and timelines.
Seriously, this is all great advice! 👏 Thanks again for sharing it!
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Personally, I loved this one:
Thank you for sharing this! Thanks!
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Excellent and enlightening post... In my mind, you are my mentor...🤩
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thnx a lot Emma, i really appreciate your useful tips :)
Beautiful post Emma, thank you. I'm a big advocate of #14. I think of work/life balance as if I am the sun and all the areas of my life are like planets in orbit around me. Family, health, hobbies, work, love - if one of those planets falls out of orbit it can mess up everything for all the other planets and the sun. I wish I could take credit for that analogy; but it was something a Guru told me 20 years ago. I'm glad it stuck!
As this is something I personally struggle with quite often, I find this analogy super helpful. Thanks for sharing it!
So happy it is helpful! Namaste 🙏
This is an awesome post! Very informative. Thank you so much. I'm at the point where I find most employers want you to have experience in this language or that framework. But they all do the same thing for the most part. So I go and watch some tutorial on the subject only for the next potential employer to want me to know something completely different...ugggghhhh🤔
Thanks for this reminder. It's so easy to get sidetracked when learning something new. I get FOMO when I'm in the middle of learning one framework/language/etc and then I come across an article about a shiny new something else. I feel like I HAVE to learn that new thing right away and get distracted with my current progress.
Criticism is great - I welcome it - but it should be constructive otherwise it's just writing something rude.
There are enough online communities where people will respond with: "I don't like it", "this sucks", "this is cheesy", and it only serves to insult the original poster.
The article wasn't too your taste because it wasn't technical and you already know and practice everything in it. Wonderful. Why not contribute some of your experience in the comments instead, then go away and read a technical article somewhere else?
What I noticed is that there is quite no criticism here on DEV.
I think that if we want to grow as a community and to be more valuable, we have to criticize more (in a constructive way) and to accept criticism.
This article is great and has got a lot of positive comments but the only negative criticism has been reported.
I totally agree that constructive criticism is much more valuable than blanket praise. I can't speak for the level of either on dev.to: I've seen some articles generate good discussion, but perhaps your experience has been different.
I do agree with reporting Menil's comment though. It wasn't constructive and amounted to, "this wasn't the article I wanted to read". I found the tone of it insulting too - calling it "cheesy" and dismissing it as "common sense" - although I'm sure it wasn't meant that way.
If there's something to add - 'I don't agree with that, but how about this' - then great but otherwise it's in danger of descending into mud-slinging, which nobody wants.
From what I can see Menil looks to be a good Android developer and I'd really like to see them write a technical article on getting started with a simple Android app, because it's something I know nothing about.
I disagree. New grads in particular may struggle with lot of things on this list but come up with some crazy smart solutions to problems. In fact I know seasoned engineers that struggle with a good many of these items. These tips can help you take your engineering ability and career to new levels, but they are not the components that make up an engineer.
Great article, thanks for sharing it! I found this to be very helpful.
I was wondering if you had any further tips regarding #4? Particularly: I have a bad habit of, once I learn something, I just assume it as 'common knowledge that everyone knows'.
So, when I try to think of ideas for things I could potentially write a blog post or something about, I often decide against most of my ideas for the reason of "people would already know about this / not want to read about it." Lately at work, though, I'm finding this to not be the case and that I sometimes do my co-workers a disservice by not sharing certain information because of this.
Everyone learns in different ways and all content you produce, whether completely unique, will be valuable :)
What a great way of looking at it -- thanks!
Agree with everything except one little problem.. "you can make it look nice later".. While I understand what you are saying but most new people somehow interpret it very wrongly. My team has two relatively junior devs and before I joined them they were busy focused on server side code. They assumed having a reference to bootstrap in site some how magically will fix all the bad ui decisions they were taking. Its not that simple. You can make it look nice provided you followed basic principles of the technology /framework. For e.g instead of using the grid layout they were still styling the forms with
tabletags.Also, probably obvious but please read the documentation of the tool/framework you choose. It really helps everybody.
You're right. The new people in your team really did interpret "you can make it look nice later" wrong. They should've used
divtags and style it up with CSS later to make it look nice.I hope someone in your team failed them on the client-side code they were making so they could fix it up; they probably didn't know using
tabletags for forms is bad UI. That's a learning moment for them as junior developers.Thanks for this, Menil. I really like your additions.
I'm really thankful to you both for engaging in a very reasonable way - it doesn't always happen that way online!
Challenging something negative is better, of course, but the down vote is a quick option to mark something that's unconstructive. I'm sure the community will get better at this as time goes on.
I'm very glad that you've illustrated number 1 from Emma's article and given some nice additions. Looking forward to your first article on Android development, Menil!
Awesome post! Truly these are the best tips.
Lovely read I must say!!! Really inspiring 💯💯
Thanks for your advice! I think they will help me a lot now. I recently worked on the Fieldwork software. I helped the programmer create the code. I am just learning theory and starting to practice, but I know that this is a good start for me.
You nailed it! Every point on this post is extremely important.
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Tips for every job, ever.
9: Be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Awesome post, I like this one. This is something that took me awhile to learn. Whenever I need to use a piece of new technology for my work on a daily basis in a startup.
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I just love it :) Thanks for the wonderful post. Wish you a great 2019 ahead
Hi Emma,
Thank you for sharing this so good advices.
Currently I'm following your 9th advices: Don't be afraid to ask questions :)
I want to start my own open source project and push it on Github and as you suggested there is "Coding Coach".
I want to learn from some great developers so I decided to register on this site, giving my point of interest I can see there are a lot of mentors on this site but how ask them advice/help directly with her post (twitter, email, linkedin,)
how did it works must I become first a "Patreon" and give first a donation ?
Could you help me ? Have you another suggestion ?
Thank you
This I struggle with all the time!
I plan to work on this in 2019 otherwise I am going to burnout taking on client work and too many side projects!
Thanks Emma, new motivation for 2019 :)
Thank you very much for your motivational post!
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Thank you, Emma, for these helpful tips. I can't wait to read your next post.
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Let me add to the cacophony of people praising this post! Well done, Emma, thank you. Sharing this everywhere today that I can think of.
Do you know why your comment has been downvoted?
IMO it's constructive. Writing negative comments doesn't mean you're not constructive.
Does it mean that DEV community only accepts positive comments?
This is a great list to kick off 2019 with!
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I loved it!! thank you
great post, Emma thank you for sharing such great content.
One more thing I would like to add:
never give up and stress out with something need to be done.
Thank for this advice Emma, this will help me improve my self as a programmer.
Very Mind open Post
great advice, IMHO #14 is the toughest.
Good artist. Don't get discouraged!
Really Good.
Thank for sharing
Thank you for your excellent post...
Perfect!
This is something I should have done from the beginning.
Sameeee.. took me 4 years
great and helpful
Thank you very much! I suffer with impostor syndrome now! I decide to learn the basic technology. Let me fell free.
Finding mentor is really hard , and I think very few senior developer accept to give you time
Thank you Emma!
Great tips! I like how many of those apply universally to anything in life really. Thanks for writing those up!
Thanks for your advice, It's a really good initiate for me
I agree with you.
wooow thanks alot...