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How to plan your dev career

Jeniffer Carvalho on November 25, 2020

Everybody wants a good career: to work on amazing projects and be recognized for your job. Working at a nice place that can provide that for you is...
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Leandro Nunes

Hello Jeni, thank you sharing these insights with us. I'm currently working on my career transition to become a front end dev and your tips are helpful. :)

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Jeniffer Carvalho

Thanks, Leandro! I have much more to share on this :)

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Darsh

If you would share that to then infomation will be appretiated :-)

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Arhire Ionut

I feel your perspective is that of a programmer who wants to specialise on a certain technology. Maybe that's not your perspective at all, but that's what I gather from your article.

While there is nothing wrong with being a programmer who wants to specialise, there are also programmers who just want to know a lot of technologies instead (and a lot about programming in general), at the cost of being a master at none of them.

There are pros and cons for each perspective, but they all should be made known, such that a starting programmer reading would understand that there isn't just one path they must follow.

Moreover, I encourage starting programmers to actually try to learn a lot of different technologies and focus on the principles and thinking necessary to be a good programmer instead of focusing on syntax and whatever trends.

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Jeniffer Carvalho

Hello, NBM! Thanks for sharing your case. I absolutely agree with you. You shouldn't choose technology with blind eyes. You must study if it is a good fit for your case. This article is for beginners who don't know what to learn first, or what path to choose. If you are an experienced developer you should be able to decide which technology best solves your problem.

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nat

I really liked this post! Very useful! 😊

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Gustavo Scarpim

Excellent topic, congratulations!