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Re:Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life was... by hueving on Sunday March 15, 2015 @05:39PM (#9208275)
So you have no experience and you are just as involved in design? I could see that maybe for UX, but not for engineering. Either your entire team is inexperienced or they are just patronizing you.
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Re:Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life was... by tcoff91 on Sunday March 15, 2015 @06:40PM (#9208520)
Fresh out of school does not necessarily mean "no experience." Many students have written a lot of software before even entering college, and then work as developers during school, leaving with 2-3 years of development experience.
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Re:Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life was... by Fiahil on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:10PM (#9208848)
Or maybe I'm involved in design because I've proved I can handle complexity, know when an abstraction would be needed, and got good fitting ideas to work my way out of a problem.

If schools don't teach you that, what's their purpose? (genuine question, I'm from a "special" school in France, and I've definitively been trained with that goal in mind (ie: gathering real world experience))

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