Evergreen skills for software developers
summary
Five concrete skills: problem solving framed as mindset beyond coding and examples of performance and communication tradeoffs; debugging and testing shown by writing tests for a ChatGPT-generated factorial function to catch failed cases then debug; software versioning via Git with branching, conflict resolution and semantic tagging (major.minor.patch) and several senior devs lacking Git fluency; refactoring (three functions collapsed into one using array.reduce and Math.max) and writing clean code to reduce bugs and ease maintenance.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Evergreen developer skills
- 3:14Problem solving beyond code
- 7:58Debugging and testing
- 11:57Git versioning mastery
- 17:21Refactoring for maintainability
- 21:46Clean code from start
- 25:27Closing
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