{"id":43606,"date":"2014-07-16T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/what-id-like-you-to-learn-before-you-start-as-one-of-my-developers.html"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T23:09:15","slug":"what-id-like-you-to-learn-before-you-start-as-one-of-my-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/what-id-like-you-to-learn-before-you-start-as-one-of-my-developers.html","title":{"rendered":"What I'd like you to learn before you start as one of my developers"},"content":{"rendered":"
I manage application developers and support teams. \u00a0I actually never got a CS degree or anything like that — it was a career I backed into through an array of amusing occurrences — but having learned this kind of stuff on my own when I was doing coding myself, and having seen people start in my organization without<\/i> some of these skills and knowledge, I may look at ways to adapt these elements into job interview questions.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Secrets you should have learned before your first programming job<\/a>
\n From debugging to version control, programming in the real world requires a set of skills they just don\u2019t teach in school\n <\/p>\n

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I manage application developers and support teams. \u00a0I actually never got a CS degree or anything like that — it was a career I backed into through an array of amusing occurrences — but having learned this kind of stuff on my own when I was doing coding myself, and having seen people start in … Continue reading “What I'd like you to learn before you start as one of my developers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/i_think_ive_use.html","url_meta":{"origin":43606,"position":0},"title":"I think I’ve used and heard all of these","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-05 9:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Developers' Top Ten Replies When Code Doesn't Work My favorite, of course: 2. 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