Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de...
by ryandrake on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:01AM
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Related: Read the official documentation. I can’t count how many times junior folks have asked me things like, does FooBarFactory constructor take an array of ints or floats? Well, what does their documentation say? Sometimes the official documentation is crap and that’s a reasonable question, but usually the answers can be found in TFM.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de...
by ggregoire on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:01PM
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I noticed a similar trend in JS dev: asking/looking for (video) tutorials instead of reading the official doc. Even when the doc is good and quick too read (React, Redux, Vue, etc).
Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de...
by charmides on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:29PM
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Related to that, usually I am a little faster finding answers to syntax questions on SO than in the documentation, even when the documentation is good. So I'm glad that people have been asking those basic questions on SO.
Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de...
by AYBABTME on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:05PM
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Yeah, it's a bit weird why people have this expectation to reach for tutorials by random person X instead of looking for the official docs. I can't count the number of time someone asked me which tutorials to read to learn Go, but hadn't even considered reading the docs.