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Discussion on: What advice would you give to junior developers?

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Edwin Klesman

Protip 1: Don't just focus on coding. Coding is important as a developer - obviously - but getting inside people's heads and finding out what will bring them real value will be more important before you start coding a single line.

You can either choose to be someone who gets a pile of specs on their plate, and turns them into code
Or you become the person that figures out the best solution with the customer, help them define the problem and the solution and builds the best solution for them.

Protip 2: either code on something to learn, or code on something to build and ship it. If you choose the latter, choose a tech stack that you know (best) and build the best solution in order to ship it faster.