We need junior developers I started my career as a junior developer in 1998. I was incredibly fortunate that a company w...

We need junior developers I started my career as a junior developer in 1998. I was incredibly fortunate that a company was willing to take a chance on a new college graduate and start teaching me the realities of software development outside the classroom.I wrote a lot of terrible code, made mistakes, broke things, mis-estimated projects, and pretty much everything else you would expect from someone who doesn’t really know anything yet.But I got better. Slowly.Every new project was a chance to firm up my growing bed of knowledge. I got better at the craft of writing code. I got better at working within projects. Eventually I got the opportunity to start scoping and leading projects and I got better and better at that too. I learned how to work with clients to reach their goals (which is often not the same as what they’re asking you for) and so much more.Here we are, almost 30 years later and I’m still doing it. And I’m still learning (which I love and will never stop). I have hundreds ...

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