Challenging Yourself
Developing Up
English - June 12, 2018 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTechnology Business Careers web development leadership programming career networking growth coding Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A career in development is full of challenges. However it can be easy to slip into a cycle of development stagnation, approaching every problem the same way, with the same tools. In this episode we talk with Mark Robert Henderson (@hackforthesea), a lead developer at CUASHI and organizer of the Hack for the Sea hackathon about the values of finding ways to challenge yourself as a developer. We discuss how challenging yourself allows you to grow as a developer, as well as, some examples of ways to challenge yourself.
Levels of "Developer Enlightenment"
Not knowing things and knowing you dont know things.
Not knowing things and thinking you know (all) things.
Knowing things and thinking you know (all) things.
Knowing things and knowing you still dont know things.
Methods to Challenge Yourself
Question your approach to solving a problem, and try a different method.
Be open to feedback to your work in code reviews.
Attend a Hackathon, use a new tool, language or framework.
Links from this Episode
Hack for the Sea Hackathon 2018
Mark Robert Henderson
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