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Discussion on: Evergreen skills to use throughout your career?

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Jishnu Vasanth •

Adding these to your arsenal might come in handy.

  • Design patterns like MVC, MVVM, singleton and abstract factory.
  • Programming paradigms like object-oriented and procedure-oriented.
  • Design principles such as SOLID, KISS, DRY and YAGNI.
  • Coding conventions and standards such as usage of whitespace and comments, naming variables and functions.
  • Collaboration and working as a team.
  • Software Development Life Cycle and knowledge of software development frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Extreme Programming.
  • Writing maintainable, scalable and robust code.
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Sung M. Kim •

Thank you, Jishnu.

What I understood here is that skills don't have much to do with technologies but with underlying principles needed to build software nowadays (as it's not possible to keep up with everything).

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Jishnu Vasanth •

Exactly! Technologies change rapidly. But if you are well versed in the underlying principles, you'll be able to build a solid software no matter what technology you are using.