Hitchhikers Guide to Growing Your Tech Skills

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Thirty years of practice yields a concrete playbook: pick a narrow piece and apply it — start with small slice — so automated unit tests come before full TDD, Docker is learned by running images and using the command line, and SQL Server for Linux runs in a local Docker image on a Mac. Visual Studio Code plus the Node.js extension provides real debugging, Domain-Driven Design’s bounded context guides incremental modeling, and the strategy is to use the command line and be willing to fail fast.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:40Julie's 7 Steps of Learning
3. 27:24Domain Modeling
4. 31:41Hitchhiker Tip

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