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Discussion on: What advice would you give to an unemployed software developer?

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mellison

That sounds nice in theory but it's like trying to contribute to an open source project. Without understanding some design patterns and design decisions they made it can be hard to jump in. With that said if you can do it you will definitely find a job much quicker.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

It works for me. The way I learned to program was to crack open open-source projects, but I've been at it before Stack Overflow or when video tutorials were readily available.