BEST ADVICE FOR BEGINNER SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

HERE ARE SOME;

Also feel free to share any advice for a beginner software developer!

If you have doubts about whether being a developer is for you. Remember that being a developer is for everyone. Let me explain why: What varies from person to person is the amount and variety of knowledge to be acquired until reaching this abstract average concept of "being a developer". Some people are closer, and others are further away. Being further away may create the illusion of "it's not for me." Which is not true. It just means that you will need to acquire more foundational knowledge to get there. And that can be the most basic knowledge possible. You just need to know where you are and if it makes sense for you to choose to embark on the path from where you are. But be sure of something: you are always capable of acquiring the necessary knowledge to achieve the desired target knowledge.

muri.cristiano

For me it’s discipline, always learning new stuff everyday. Be critical with yourself in a healthy way, to improve. Let ur ego on the side & always ask for tips and improvement.

meakcodes

If you find it hard, keep pushing, your brain will trick you that can’t do something but actually you can, never lose hope and learn something new everyday, try to perfect your skill as a developer 🔥

coderstory

Don’t stop learning, spend a couple of extra hours outside of work looking at new tech / skills that you could potentially bring into your place of work 😊

developeradam

Software Security Engineer here. Two security tips for beginners. First, never trust input from a user. Always validate and sanitize it and add rate limiting like captcha. This will help prevent attacks such as cross site scripting, sql injection, brute forcing and denial of service. Second, do research on libraries you import in your project. Stay away from libraries with small communities and active vulnerabilities. Hope this helps. Thanks!

amirhamzavp

Don’t overlook learning the basics. It can be exciting to start doing the cool stuff, but without the fundamentals, you’re going to struggle to progress 😃

tom.developer

Focus on getting the reps in. Don’t worry about doing something right, focus on just writing a tonne of code and learning. There is a saying in photography “the best way to take a great photo is to take a lot of bad photos” the same is true of code, the only way to get good at writing code is to write a lot of bad code.

allthecode

If you ever become really stuck for hours on fixing a certain bug or implementing a feature, walk away from the computer for a bit. A lot of the time, the answer will come to you as you are doing other things and staying at the computer longer wouldn’t have brought any progress. Also, try to build as many things as possible without tutorials. That way you know that you’ve got the skill.

rosacodes