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Discussion on: What part of your first dev job were you least prepared for?

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Mark Sta Ana • Edited

It took me ten years to get my first dev job (previously I was in Ops/SysAdmin role).

I had done OOP at University, but at the time the Gang of Four and Design Pattern didn't exist. Also I would say that I was more of a procedural based programmer (Pascal, C, COBOL and Assembly).

So fast forwards to my first dev job, I found myself struggling with concepts that peers took for granted. Nearly all my code looked more like procedural, rather than the message passing.

If I could do it all again, I would've asked my manager to send me on an OOP course rather than a .NET course which left me even more confused.