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Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software En...

Avatar for Victor Velazquez Victor Velazquez
October 09, 2019
Programming
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Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer

Inspiring the new generation of Software Engineers

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Victor Velazquez

October 09, 2019

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Transcript

  1. Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer

  2. You’ll need to fail fast and fail often if you

    want to get ahead
  3. None

  4. It was okay to ask questions

  5. None

  6. Everyone learns differently

  7. None

  8. You have to talk to people quite often

  9. None

  10. You really do learn as you go

  11. None

  12. Imposter Syndrome is normal at every stage

  13. None

  14. Is normal to have more lines of tests than production

    code

  15. Writing code is only a small part of what goes

    into shipping production software

  16. You'll typically not start a project from scratch

  17. When you are starting, there is no best tutorial

  18. How to read backtrace error

  19. The importance of open source

  20. Test All Things

  21. None

  22. Understand Design Patterns

  23. None

  24. Learn English

  25. Learn Git

  26. Is not a joke learn Git

  27. Side Projects

  28. As many as you possibly can

  29. Improve Soft Skills

  30. None

  31. Have Fun

  32. None
  33. None
  34. None

  35. Who We Are

  36. What We Do

  37. MagmaCode

  38. What else? Open Source Write Blogs CodeKatas Speak at Conferences

    Travel Remote Work Podcasts UX/UI Design Quality Assurance Project Management Celebrate Career Paths

  39. Still More?

  40. Gracias! Víctor Velázquez Director of Engineering at MagmaLabs @vicmaster @zazvick

  41. None