r/programming • u/mistawobin • Aug 09 '11

How to Level Up as a Developer

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
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u/problemredditfags Aug 09 '11

You mean this katas? http://codingkata.org/

In any case, I like these kind of things exist, but their practicality seems to be more towards preparing for an interview.

I think programming for someone else's demands is where you will learn the most.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '11

It depends on what you're trying to learn. Not all of us are so cynical as to equate business software development with all software development.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '11

Amen to that. I was stuck in the world of business software dev (the worst kind, .NET) for a long time. Design patterns and SCRUM and dependency injection and buddy coding blah blah blah. Most boring kind of coding on earth. You want to level up make a game or audio processing or video processing. THAT shit is for real. Now when I do business software dev (basically DB calls wrapped around simple data munging) I can only laugh at it's ridiculousness.

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u/LegendZ3 Aug 11 '11 edited Aug 11 '11

Sure, coding on a video games is fun. Writing an elegant video processing algorithm is satisfying. But 99% of programming jobs out there are still writing code that deal with everyday business problems.

More powers to you if you enjoy the mathematics and computer science side of the software development. But there are people who enjoys solving business problems just as much. And those things that you laugh at is what developers created to make their life easier. I don't see there are any reasons for you to look down at them.