Here's my piece of advice for new devs out there:

1 - Pick one language to learn first and stick with it, untill you grasp some solid fundamentals. (Variables, functions, classes, namespaces, scope, at least)

2 - Pick an IDE, and stick with it for now. Don't worry about tools yet. Comment everything you're coding. The important thing is to comment why you wrote it, and not what it does. Research git and start using version control, even when coding by yourself alone.

3 - Practice, pratice and pratice. If you got stuck, try reading the language docs first and see if you can figure it out yourself. If all else fails, then go to google and stackoverflow. Avoid copying the solution, type it all and try to understand it.

4 - After you feel you need to go to the next level, research best practices first, and start to apply them to your code. Try to make it modular as it grows. Then learn about tools, preprocessors and frameworks.

5 - Always keep studying. Never give up. We all feel that we have no idea of what we are doing sometimes. That's normal. You will understand eventually. ALWAYS KEEP STUDYING.

What advice would I give a new dev?
"Learn COBOL"

No one specified that it had to be 'good advice'

Dance like no one's watching, encrypt like everyone is.

My git password is only muscle memory at this point.

If I accidentally try to think about what I'm typing I end locking myself out for the rest of the day.

When you're too busy ranting...

Studying networt router configuration sucks...

Work from home they said

So I had been spending more than a week trying to figure out why the status messages which should show up after an AJAX request doesn't show up. Turns out, I kept removing it in the ajaxstop method... -_-

I'm almost 29 and only have finished high school. I never new what I wanted to do until 7 years ago. Software engineering and development.

It took me a little while an some effort to find a employer who sees my potentials and is willing to invest in me.

Two weeks ago I decided to finally go back to school again (self study). Last week my boss told me he is proud and willing to share the costs.
Today my books arrived.

I am so excited and nervous!! November 5th (also my birthday) will be the first day of school.

The Linux!!!

Hey everyone - just a note on rants about politics: we've had a long-standing policy not to really allow any of them. So if you post one and see it quickly disappear from the feed, that's why.

We've gathered a lot of feedback on this and Tim and I both agree that Facebook is ridden with posts about politics and one of the more refreshing aspects of devRant is we've kept it free of that. It's also an aspect of Facebook that many people I've talked to really hate.

Thank you, and feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

This guy!

Dear America, it is time for us to band together and ctrl-z out of this situation 😳

JavaScript:
NaN === NaN // false
Typeof NaN === 'number' // true

Pure evil 😂😂😂

The truth about browsers.

In one of our webinterfaces you could swap between users once you logged in by changing the user in the link.

Not intended but our support is using this "feature" frequently because then they don't have to log in again when helping another client so it's not planned to be fixed

How to get devs to apply for a job

Guess who said he will sleep at 11PM and now he scrolls DevRant at 4AM?

First Google image result for "man cat"

!!rant
Need 10 points to create my avatar

I feel like a lot of people in Dev Rant are web developers. There's nothing wrong with that but sometimes I feel disconnected from all of you. Where my Firmware Engineers at? 🤓

Pretty much

Well...shit

When you just can't figure it out

Humans!

The amount of sensitive, private, and secure information you can get just by asking someone for it is truly astounding.

Pulling my hairs off because a file is not being executed in the server.

Later realized I didn't even upload the file :(

@dfox
Fat avatar plz.
Not all programmers are steve jobs, some are Steve Woz.
Not proud to be fat, not claiming fat shaming.
I just want to be represented.
Not upset if this is not possible, just a suggestion.
Willing to do the art myself if you like.

Have you ever heard of Jake Weary?

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