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Laiju k5-Nov-14 16:39
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harvyk05-Nov-14 11:34
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What you want as a young coder is a mentor who will help you grow into your own coder with your own style (still following style guidelines of course) rather than simply "experienced people".

Now before you ask me "isn't experience people the same as a mentor" I can absolutely assure you that it's not. A mentor will help you go from A to B, providing tips and pointers along the way, but letting you follow your own journey. "Experienced People" as you are putting it will already know the way from A to B, and it'll become "my way or the highway", and when you are doing that all you learn is how to follow procedures, not how to work out how to get from B to C by yourself.

Also get used to researching things. A good coder is someone who is constantly growing, learning new methods and ways to add to their toolkit and that means constant research, just don't be suckered in by the latest and greatest fad. Make sure what you pick are things which will add value to you as a developer in the eye's of your clients (be it your employer, be it the client which you're outsourced to), forget about obtaining "geek credentials", at the end of the day, they are not worth a thing.
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