This is a guest post from Adam Steel. Enjoy. Dear New Developer, Getting your first developer job can feel like a big accomplishment. And it is! It can feel so big and you can feel so relieved to have any job at all that you might start to develop your worldview around that one job. … Continue reading Take jobs that help you grow
Dear new developer, One thing I love about software development is that you'll always be learning. This is because of two things. First, there's better and different hardware. It is possible that this pace will subside sometime, but looking at the variety of new computing hardware, sensors and components that have been created over the … Continue reading You’ll always be learning
Dear new developer, If you interact with web APIs at your job, learning curl is a good investment. Curl is a flexible, powerful, command line utility which lets you make HTTP requests. In my current job, I build a lot of API requests. Side note: I'm going to use the shorthand API for web based, … Continue reading Learn curl
This is a guest post from Eddie Jaoude. Enjoy. Dear New Developer, I will be the first one to tell you that it is not essential to have a degree in computer science to become a developer. My own journey started with a degree in engineering and falling into code as a mix of a … Continue reading Make it open source
Dear new developer, If you don't know what you don't know, it's hard to learn it. There are so many resources for learning, but if you can't find them, you're going to have a hard time taking advantage of them. Sometimes you need to spend time learning what you need to spend time learning. That … Continue reading Google can’t help if you don’t know the words
This is a guest post from Allie Cooper. Enjoy. It’s one thing to be able to write good code, but professional written communication is something else entirely. The ability to efficiently and authentically communicate using written language is an often ironically underrated skill in software development.This is something that new developers need to get over … Continue reading Why and how to improve your writing skills as a software developer
This is a guest post from Shawn Wang aka swyx. Enjoy. Dear new developer, If there's a golden rule to learning, it's this one. You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here … Continue reading Learn in public
Dear new developer, The honest truth is that you won't know everything. No one does. The CEO, CTO, the team lead, that really smart senior developer on your team, none of them know everything. In fact, I bet if you asked any one of them if they'd been stymied in the past week, they'd reveal … Continue reading How to say I don’t know
This is a guest post from Jerome Hardaway. Enjoy. Dear new developer, So, you’re in the office, learning a million things a minute that you were never exposed to. Everyone around you seems super competent and you don’t want to take time away from them, but you have no idea what you’re doing. You feel … Continue reading You’re gonna be OK
This is a guest post from Mia de Búrca. Enjoy. Dear new developer, You’re probably going to want to quit. The very qualities that make writing software appealing can also make it frustrating beyond belief. You're headed down this path because you like to be challenged, to learn and grow. However, facing new harder problems … Continue reading You’re probably going to want to quit
Letters To A New Developer 