Evergreen skills for software developers
summary
Five evergreen skills: problem solving with real tradeoffs like performance and scope creep and using ChatGPT for quick prototypes but verifying results; debugging and testing with concrete unit cases (0→1, 5→120 for factorial) to prevent production regressions; git workflows including branching, careful merging, tagging and semantic versioning rules for major minor patch; refactoring and clean code practices like extract methods, rename variables, remove duplication to improve readability, reuse, maintainability and speed of debugging.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to evergreen skills
- 3:23Problem solving mindset
- 7:02Debugging and testing
- 11:51Version control with Git
- 16:10Refactoring and clean code
- 22:23Closing and key takeaways
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