What’s the best piece of advice you’d give to a junior developer?

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Here’s mine, Care deeply about any work that you touch, give your best and more. The effort really shows, especially when you can solve something better than what they hoped for.

I am a non-techie. For some time, I have been working on a SaaS project (Bubble, Supabase, ChatGPT) alone. Don't have enough cash to build a team. Can you help me out with these questions: 1. Advice you would give to someone who is just starting out. 2. What should I do to earn the respect of my future team. Considering I am a young non-techie and SaaS is all about tech.

Experienced and Senior devs ,I need suggestions regarding what skill set is expected from a 1 year old full stack developer (stack- REACT, JAVA/KOTLIN ,Docker ,AWS) So apart from DSA and Core CS subjects what else should I focus on. I am aiming to switch to very good product based companies and startups also open for remote working opportunities. So please guide me devs. Thank you

I have 1 YOE and I often miss my deadlines which causes spillover. The tasks assigned to me get completed by me, and I face very little difficulty in it. Also, when someone asks me about a different part of the codebase, I am unable to answer confidently. I tried reading documentation, but couldn't figure out much. But still I do read the documentation sometimes. I identified distractions and removed them, mostly my phone. But recently I noticed that I still miss deadlines, but the reason for that is I take a long time to figure out the issue/feature that I am going to develop. So far I have tried - Removing distractions, by uninstalling SM apps - White boarding the issue beforehand - Communicating better and early. Things I am going to try - Use debugger instead of logs(I know, should have done before) - Document before implementing (Didn't know, that this was a standard practice before)

Hey folks, how do you skill up and develop depth as a backend developer. For faang devs, most of the work is a small part of a big component unless you are lucky and get to build something from scratch. Startups folks have the advantage to go deep i believe as they build from scratch and solve interesting challenges along the way. Any suggestions on skilling up is appreciated.

Hey everyone, So, I'm currently a Test Engineer/Test Lead and have around 10 years of total IT experience (mix of Mainframes Application Development/Technical Business Analysis/QA), and my boss recently asked if I'm up for switching to development. One of our company's new product is built on Django, and they need someone who is good with Python and JavaScript. I'm not exactly starting from scratch, but I've never really done web development in a professional setting. Anyway, I have a few months to get up to speed. 1. Any suggestions on Django, Python, and JavaScript online courses or tutorials to get a deep understanding? I have already done a lot of tutorials earlier and know the basics. Also, not sure if it's worth doing it again. 2. Any cool projects that I should do to get the hang of these languages? 3. If any of you have switched from testing to development, what were the big challenges you faced? How did you deal with them? 4. Any tips on how to speed up this learning process? I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks!