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Advice for new engineers
(programming.dev)
A community for discussion amongst professional software developers.
Posts should be relevant to those well into their careers.
For those looking to break into the industry, are hustling for their first job, or have just started their career and are looking for advice, check out:
Don't take too long trying to figure out a challenge by yourself. Ask questions. Unlike in school, you are allowed to ask for help with your work.
Learn how to write unit testable code as soon as possible (SOLID principles). Learn how to write concise and relevant unit tests. If it's not in your team's culture to write unit tests, then you go be that guy. It's good for you and it's good for the product. Unit tests are one of the few things in the programming community that everybody believes are a good thing.
I think unit tests are something I struggle with a lot due to not having the habit to write them down. Thank you though! The SOLID principles haven't stumbled upon them in my undergrad lol well time to hit the books again on unit testing xD