Comments by "" (@retagainez) on "5 Signs of an Inexperienced Self-Taught Developer (and how to fix)" video.

This branching strategy could also harm testability in this case, too.
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@Immudzen Ah. In that case, a lack of merge conflicts wouldn't really detract from using branches. I am more curious about the problem domain you guys write code for and it makes me sad and confused to hear about the hostile pairing sessions. I would do ANYTHING to work in a company with pairing, but I highly expect I won't be exposed to that for possibly up to an entire decade or so.
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Except that some of the largest organizations use Trunk Based development and only push to master. If you take this long to push, it could be you're not only not committing compliable code enough but also not testing frequently enough.
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@BW022 I definitely started coding at 15-16 and people will remark on the large amount of languages I list. Interviews/resumes are broken to some extent. Even your descriptions seek a way to marginalize somebody like me. No way around that.
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@Muskar2 It's probably more dangerous for the reasoning that browsers are tightly coupled to JavaScript and vice versa. So much so, coupled to browsers where the GUI is untestable and not standardized. If anything, JavaScript has valuable lessons in navigating/avoiding this tight coupling with the complex configuration system it has via various json configuration files. From a perspective of creating patterns of programs, I would say it's all mostly still there but maybe only less accessible due to all previously mentioned overhead.
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Much of this advise follows for businesses with large and intentional corporate structures for development but I fail to see how this advice is useful for anyone but the people who are already in big tech. I guess my main gripe is that there isn't much solid advice outside of "get experience in a siloed corporate environment" which doesn't really come off as advice anymore. Not very representative of the actual value a developer is supposed to bring to a business and other teams. I'll agree on learning a new language or just reading a book that changes your way of thinking. But if we take this idea of learning outside this context, you could do that without focusing solely on a programming language.
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I wouldn't say building a website is any excuse to being careless. Nor would I say that following the advice on this video is actually going to teach you to how to not be careless. I don't advocate for regulating a currently highly subjective industry, though. Not until some things are standardized much better.
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@matthewyounger6834 I think the regulation refers to something much more granular rather than software distribution.
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@fulconandroadcone9488 Students don't learn the "trade" side of writing code. In my University I had ONE course that maybe mentioned any semblance of code quality as a brief aside in a lecture. That was my software engineering course where we developed a project for stakeholders for an entire semester. One lecture mentioned agile, another unit testing, one talked about assertions, design patterns, and some about Git practices. And even that was in passing and not really remarked upon past that.
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