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Discussion on: My Journey Into Software Engineering

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Ashlee (she/her)

I totally agree with you up to "practice by doing". I 100% think that's how it should be, but I think two things actually happen far too often:

  • there's not enough time to practice on your own (outside of assignments)
  • assignments are far too structured and don't leave room for creativity

I love how much time I have now to practice whatever I want. I think I learned quite a bit of how to structure my own learning though, with college requiring good time management skills.

I like your idea! I think I'll write some posts on Software Engineering specific concepts. There's quite a few things you learn that Computer Scientists don't! Holding all of that information in my head doesn't help anyone, does it? :)

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Grant Bennett

My biggest issue at the minute is with working all day then coming home and not wanting to start working on my own projects because I’m a little burned out, but that’s a whole other topic!

I look forward to seeing some of that tucked-away information! Definitely have time for that.