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Thanks for the great article. The section about the backticks ( ` ) is surprisingly important. I'm embarrassed to admit it took me years...yeeeeears of using a computer before I ever realized there was a backtick key🤦♂️ I remember being so frustrated whenever I'd encounter these "weirdly formatted apostrophes" and couldn't reproduce code or commands without having to copy&paste. I also remember the moment I saw an animated scene in a game, that just showed the tilda button pressing and depressing with information on what it did in game. I sat there for a solid 20 minutes just completely dumbfounded.
Quick follow-up question about the first few paragraphs where you discussed blogging being a requirement for your students. Why does there seem to be a push to get people coming into Tech to be hyper-social social media users? It's like there's now a requirement where in order to be in the industry you have to have an active public git commit history, a daily blog, give talks at cons, and be super active on Twitter. It seems kind of foreign to me. What am I not getting?
I believe there is a huge push to be active on social media and blogging platforms because it is a form of networking. I think networking is the big push here.
When you become active on these platforms, you start interacting with people from all over and you can try to leverage that to try and find a job.
This is all just a guess from my experience though, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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Thanks for the great article. The section about the backticks ( `
) is surprisingly important. I'm embarrassed to admit it took me years...yeeeeears of using a computer before I ever realized there was a backtick key🤦♂️ I remember being so frustrated whenever I'd encounter these "weirdly formatted apostrophes" and couldn't reproduce code or commands without having to copy&paste. I also remember the moment I saw an animated scene in a game, that just showed the tilda button pressing and depressing with information on what it did in game. I sat there for a solid 20 minutes just completely dumbfounded.Quick follow-up question about the first few paragraphs where you discussed blogging being a requirement for your students. Why does there seem to be a push to get people coming into Tech to be hyper-social social media users? It's like there's now a requirement where in order to be in the industry you have to have an active public git commit history, a daily blog, give talks at cons, and be super active on Twitter. It seems kind of foreign to me. What am I not getting?
I believe there is a huge push to be active on social media and blogging platforms because it is a form of networking. I think networking is the big push here.
When you become active on these platforms, you start interacting with people from all over and you can try to leverage that to try and find a job.
This is all just a guess from my experience though, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.