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Discussion on: The code review that changed my life

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Makoto Kinoshita

I know how you feel really well. I think it is a dilemma many developers have :/ Some people love to work in a small team or even alone, but there is currently no great way for them to learn from experienced developers. I hope this to change in the future tho!

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Blaine Osepchuk

You may not be able to learn from experienced developers directly if you are working alone, but there are plenty of indirect ways to learn from great developers:

  • books (Steve McConnell, Martin Fowler, Robert C Martin, Michael Feathers, etc.)
  • thousands of hours of YouTube videos
  • online courses
  • and hundreds of millions (or possibly billions) of lines of code just sitting there in open source projects waiting for you to "git clone" them

I'm not saying this is the easy or preferred way of becoming an experienced developer but it can be done--this is how I leveled up.

Finally, just keep practicing. Review your own code a few days after you wrote it. Our go look at something you wrote 6 months ago and see if you can find a way to improve it.