Advice from a Junior Developer

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1. Advice from a Junior Developer
2. Cameo Langford @cameocodes hello@cameocodes.com
3. The divide between theory and practice is great, and the ability to bridge that divide will come in bits and pieces. You can know all the theory in the world and not be able to put it into practice, or have all the experience in the world and not have the foundational knowledge of why. Knowledge without practice is useless, practice without knowledge is dangerous.
4. Even software architects get imposter syndrome.
5. CS degrees give you a lot of theoretical knowledge but not a lot of practical experience. We are in no way at a disadvantage for not having done one.
6. Don’t be tempted to measure your success by how many lines of code you’ve written. Less is often more.
7. Your programming failures are not your personal failures.
8. They’re not always going to be great days - sometimes they’re just average days, and that’s okay too.
9. Questions?