What Makes A Great Developer

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[GreggBolinger]

I used to have a blog when I first started down my dev learning path and I never approached my writing as "learn how" but as "this is what I'm learning" and I think that's an important distinction and can avoid the pitfall of teaching other people new in the dev learning path something wrong.

[bobbycrosby]

I don't touch grass in my spare time. I touch wood. Err, I mean, I build things out of wood with hand tools.

[meanmole]

I like how Brilliant separates programming and Python

[Exiide]

Teaching also teaches the teacher. This forces the person to adopt a learning approach which facilitates both his and his student's learning.

[mghinto]

"I was way too into table tennis, ok, I had my own paddle, ..."

That's dedication right there

[Altrue]

IMO, what makes a great developer is always seeking to improve, and finding pleasure in learning.
If you know how to do that, no matter how dumb you are, you'll outperform the others given enough years. It's a marathon, not a sprint!

Also, being good at estimating how much (or how little) you'll need to manage complexity for your current project.

And finally, being willing to challenge pre-established, widespread ideas, while still being able to accept them when your current context plays to their strengths.

[thisbridgehascables]

I’m older than Prime and a developer. Yet, I think Prime is a superior developer.

I’ve over the years divided my time between code, art and music. Yet, recently I’ve been going 100% coding again. There’s a lot of coding I’ve gotten a little lazy about and have a desire to improve and surpass my current level.

[apl]

Travis is positive and encouraging. His message is essentially that people can learn on their own and make a new career out of it. Conversely, many of the "experienced" developers are condescending. Their message is repeatedly that newbies just don't have enough experience, need years more practice, don't have what it takes, etc. How much experience qualifies as 'experienced'? How many years experience does one need before they can teach others? To effectively teach, one must inspire, encourage, and applaud. On one side we have Travis doing that, and on the other we have more experienced, sanctimonious developers spitting venom.

[davidiancrux]

I love that guy's vids He's sooo positive and really helped me feel better about starting

[zrocodes]

This reminds me of the chapter "Vienna Waits For You" from the book "Peopleware". Eventually developers will realize life is more valuable than staring at a screen.

[mjsagxy]

For me, every idea sooner or later leads back to programming. The more paradigms you can wrap your head around, the more tools you have in your pocket the more problems you can solve. So whatever resonates with you or brings you joy. Steal ideas from economics, history, molecular biology math. It is all good and will help you with your programming.

[lucasteo]

“When I do the thing I do the thing”
This is so me, when I say I'm playing games today, I play until I'm satisfied.
When I say I do programming today, I do programming until my eyes close.
This is the most efficient way for me to dive deep into whatever I'm doing.

[srjnfds]

"How do you think families are created?" ==D

[sdprolearning]

The reason what makes me love programming because what can you do in programming is truly infinite

[wlockuz]

In a time where most people don't even credit the videos they react to, Prime watches a full blown ad on their video. Huge respect.

[gregoryshields]

The target video is not about what makes a great developer. It’s really about work/life balance and the propensity, or lack thereof, for being a teacher.

Prime: the elephant in the room is that you should do stand-up comedy. It’s your natural comedic ability that makes you interesting more than anything else. You know it; we know it.

[robfielding]

you get burnt out from wasted effort; not from something that accumulates progress.

[dkr]

Problem on YT now is that there are too many new devs, with max 4-5 years experience and trying to teach us things. But the content is full with mistakes, bad practices etc etc.

[Dom-zyqy]

Experiencing things outside of coding sometimes makes me want to go and code more. For instance, I really enjoy going on walks: "Maybe I'll build a step tracker app just for fun". Then that turns into "Maybe I'll buy an arduino and try to hack together a fitbit prototype." Or, "Maybe I use the geolocation data from my step tracker to recreate my walking path on a minecraft server in realtime" (I don't know why I even thought of that)

You can have a life AND be enthusiastic about programming.

[LiamInviteMelonTeee]

Competing in a table tennis match against someone with as much energy as prime sounds terrifying