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  • The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer
  • Skill 1: Solving Problems
  • It is amazing how bad most developers are at solving problems.
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  • problem solving is the base skill of software development.
  • Skill 2: Teaching Yourself
  • There is probably no more important skill in life than learning to learn.
  • especially important in software development, because no field I know of changes more rapidly than software development.
  • need the ability to quickly acquire the knowledge you need for the task at hand.
  • learn how to teach yourself
  • Skill 3: Naming
  • Software development is all about describing the metaphysical
  • Every time you are writing code you are naming things
  • can accurately predict a developer’s skill level by looking at how they have named methods, variables and classes in code they have written
  • A developer who lacks the ability to give good names to concepts and data in their code is like a mute translator
  • focus on giving good names to things
  • most visible thing about your code
  • if I read it and can understand it, I am going to assume you know what you are doing.
  • Skill 4: Dealing with People
  • humans are not logical creatures
  • we are emotional ones
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