@MyLittleMagneton
Two golden pieces of advice I've gotten from senior devs: "Less code is good code", and "overestimate the time everything will take by a factor of 2".
@LoveThatSceneChannel
My controversial opinion is that, regardless of being new or very experienced, a good programmer is flexible and willing to experiment outside their philosophy. Cause only Sith deal in absolutes.
@thisphilipp
my cs prof at university once said something which always stuck to me: "Programming is the art to tell annother human being what you want the computer to do" and I think this is so true
@vin5718
Controversial opinion: SQL is pronounced Squirrel
@jayanths1221
"I only have about 5000 rep on Stack Overflow, so my opinion really doesn't matter very much" - I swear I watch your videos just for the satire at this point lmao
@AronFiechter
The opinion about not needing a college degree is very US centric, as in most other countries you can get a degree without getting any debt and often also without any side job.
@sylowlover
Not a programmer, I'm a mathematician, but the comment about upper education really resonates with me. If i had not gone to university, i would have not gained the mountains of insight from profs, succinct explanations, had nearly as many helpful peers, and i would never have been able to write anything close to the scope of my undergrad thesis without the supervision i had. If i had wanted to understand something like "hyperelliptic curve cryptography with genus 2", i would have been bumbling through papers and stackexchange posts for weeks, but my prof explained it wonderfully within 2 lectures. The sheer condensed knowledge from people with literal decades of experience in it isn't something you should just forsake as being "easily googlable". I really despise it when people say things like "university is useless", because it's just a certain type of learning environment that might not work for you, but it works wonders for others. Google is a library, not a professor.
@TheBadFred
Testing: Most stakeholders want test driven development but don't want to pay for proper meaningful tests.
@GaspardFR
The last point made me remember my tech lead in my first project : "Don't write optimized code if optimization isn't your goal in the first place"
@SixCoreSecond
The best advice a senior dev ever gave to me was "The best code is just plain boring"
@bruceme101
28 years of experience. OOP was the cool hotness when I was a student in the early 90's. Encapsulation has its place, but most problems don't need it and it tends to obscure the code from the solution. The more I write code the less I write programs with OOP patterns.
@kisvegabor
I've heard it somewhere: "The code is NOT ready when you have nothing to add but when you have nothing to remove." I think it's very true.
@edmarsouza2479
Opinion: Every time someone says "We need to get better at agile", what I hear is: "Agile doesn't work for us, it is causing stress in our company, but we'll keep pushing it anyway because it is trendy and will work somehow".
@MobiusCoin
Damn, I actually like the speed of these videos. I hate watching tutorials where they type everything. I just want the core concepts. I end up using the arrow keys to jump giant chunks of the tutorial.
@BigJMC
Correct opinion: You’re writing your programs wrong if you’re not writing them in assembly.
@Ironication
I have total respect for developers who are self-taught. I went the university route (got a masters in CS) and I met some pretty talented devs and a lot of horrible ones. If you want to do it, you will find ways to reach your goals, degree or not.
@coolbrotherf127
As far as a computer science degree goes, I'd think what's really overlooked is the mathematics and logic skills that the graduates of good programs have. Many degrees require calculus 1-3, linear algebra, statistics, discrete structure logic, algorithm design, etc. I can tell you from personal experience companies that are designing products and solutions for important STEM fields aren't often hiring self-taught programmers because they lack the needed mathematics, scientific, and low level systems knowledge that are required for those positions. If someone has no interest in working in the STEM industry and just wants to make mobile apps or websites, then no, a computer science degree is not worth the time and effort, but, if they do, then it's pretty much required. Computer Science degrees were never designed to make app developers, that's what coding bootcamps are for. CS degrees are designed for the development of scientists who specialize in computer utilization. Telling people, especially young people, an incomplete and biased take of, "College is bad because I didn't need it to get my job," is misleading and dishonest.
@ericmintz8305
Over the past 50 years, I've seen customers routinely make two deadly mistakes: 1. Proposing solutions instead of stating needs. When a user says, "I need a program to ..." I ask, "Where does it hurt?" That often gets to the heart of the matter. 2. Trying to make my job easier. I tell my customers, "Be unreasonable. Demand the sun, the moon, the galaxy, and a galaxy in the universe to our left. I'm an adult, and will tell you if something is infeasible."
@this-is-bioman
I like python & Kotlin because they allow you to use OOP when it's really beneficial and don't force you to do it all the time for everything like C# does so, most of the time you can stick to simple functions and modules.
@kosterdan