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Discussion on: New Web Developer Skills You Probably Don’t Have

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

I think soft skills especially in writing clearly is important. As we are required to convey our technical understanding in asynchronous manner and discussion with non-technical people.

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Devon Campbell

Definitely. Communication, written or otherwise, is very important. Even your communication inside your code is critical – writing readable code instead of clever code, thoughtful variable naming, comments sparingly but where needed, etc.