{"id":3376,"date":"2020-08-02T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2020-08-02T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:00:28","slug":"what-i-wish-i-had-known-when-i-was-starting-out-as-a-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3376","title":{"rendered":"What I wish I had known when I was starting out as a developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I get older, I wish I could reach back and give myself advice. Some of it is life advice (take that leap, kiss that girl, take that trip) but a lot of it is career advice.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much about being a software developer that you learn along the way. This includes technical knowledge like how to tune a database query and how to use a text editor. It also includes non technical knowledge, what some people term &#8220;soft skills&#8221;. I tend to think they are actually pretty hard, to be honest. Things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to help your manager help you<\/li>\n<li>Why writing code isn&#8217;t always the best solution<\/li>\n<li>Mistakes and how to handle them<\/li>\n<li>How to view other parts of the business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These skills took me a long time to learn (and I am still learning them to this day) but have had a material impact on my happiness as a developer.<\/p>\n<p>I am so passionate about this topic that I&#8217;ve written over 150 blog posts. Where are these? They&#8217;re over at <a href=\"https:\/\/letterstoanewdeveloper.com\/\">another site<\/a> I&#8217;ve been updating for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>And then I went and wrote a book. I learned a bunch of lessons during that process, including the fact that it&#8217;s an intense effort. I wrote it with three audiences in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new developer, with less than five years of experience. This book will help them level up.<\/li>\n<li>The person considering software development. This book will give them a glimpse of what being a software developer is like.<\/li>\n<li>The mentor. This book will serve as a discussion guide for many interesting aspects of development with a mentee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The book arrives in August. I hope you&#8217;ll check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterstoanewdeveloper.com\/the-book\/\">Full details, including ordering information, over at the Letters To A New Developer website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I get older, I wish I could reach back and give myself advice. Some of it is life advice (take that leap, kiss that girl, take that trip) but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,89,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifehack","category-mistakes","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}