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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by shrimp_emoji on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:18AM (#16376883)
>Once in a while you find somebody who has been doing real work on the side for years during or before college, and thus has a clue how things work, but that's a diamond in the rough, usually.

Can you define "real work"?

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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? by lkbm on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:26PM (#16379067)
I assume essentially anything that isn't a school assignment.

Something built for a need--whether profitable business, or personal need--tends to provide more meaningful experience than a "write this contrived program to learn how [specific programming functionality] works" project.

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