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    7 Tips for Beginner Programmers

    September 29, 2020 /

    You’re just starting out as a programmer, so you’re looking for some tips on how to get started. Maybe you’ve landed your first job. Or you’ve just finished school. Perhaps you’ve done what many of us before you (including me) did and simply said “I’m a programmer!” and got to work. Either way, congratulations! Here are a few tips for beginner programmers that will help get you on your way to a new career. There’s No Substitute for Getting Your Hands Dirty You can read hundreds of books. You can watch thousands of hours of YouTube. But nothing makes you a better programmer than, well, programming. Stop preparing and start…

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    Eric Goebelbecker

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    Lessons From a Veteran: Dawid Ziolkowski on Trusting and Taking the Plunge

    September 5, 2020 /

    This post is part of a series interviewing veteran developers, asking them questions about their journey to tech mastery and sharing the advice they have for those getting started. Today we’re talking to Dawid Ziolkowski. Dawid has 10 years of experience. At the beginning, he worked as a network/system engineer, did DevOps in between, and recently became a cloud-native engineer. He’s worked for an IT outsourcing company, a research institute, telco, a hosting company, and a consultancy company, so he’s gathered a lot of knowledge from different perspectives. Nowadays, he’s helping companies move to cloud and/or redesign their infrastructure for a more cloud-native approach. If you’re considering a career switch…

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    Dawid Ziolkowski

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