Timeline for Master's degree in Computer Science but I am a bad developer
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| Nov 1, 2022 at 15:30 | comment | added | 17 of 26 | This is not an appropriate evaluation of someone who hasn't even graduated college yet trying to work on a real world codebase. What's far more likely is that the code is a total dumpster fire and the people working on it have unrealistic expectations of an entry level developer.. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | Dave Gremlin | -1 Three years coding is nothing, especially in an academic context. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 16:31 | comment | added | Koenigsberg | Very torn on this one, so no up- or downvote. On one side - true, not everyone can be Feynman or his equivalent in the respective field. On the other side, as a junior developer being put into a position of constant pressure with colleagues being unsupportive can have adverse effects and I have seen this in practice. OP's description hints at this too. People can become a LOT more effective in the right environment. There is also paces of learning. Some get used to a new codebase slower, but are able to solve problems faster once they are comfortable with it. There are many sides to this. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 15:47 | comment | added | Sybille Peters | Also, you may be right (so the other answers are also wrong). There is just no way to know. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 15:44 | comment | added | Sybille Peters | I do think it is a bit bold to make a "remote diagnosis" like this only based on a description where there are more questions open than answered. The OP does not clearly specify what the experience was in or if it was in the current job. How can he study and have 3 years experience??? He says the code is complex. May be complex in a good way (but this may need someone to walk through) or it may be a great big ball of yarn which was dragged through the mud and then shot at with a machine gun. How are we to know which is which? | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 13:18 | comment | added | Fattie | (I don't see why this was downvoted.) One thing, I believe the OP means he was "at college" for three years. My understanding is he has zero (or perhaps "one week" or something) of programming experience. Programming is exactly like playing a musical instrument. You can study "music theory" for 10,000 hours, or 100,000 hours - and that's a great thing - but 100,000 hours of music theory is, literally, not worth one minute of actually playing guitar or saxophone. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 9:08 | history | answered | virolino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |