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What I wish I had known when I was starting out as a developer (2020)

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Isn't this just an advertisement? There's very little substance I could find, other than "I wrote a book".

Unless the person who posted this is the author of the book, I think it's okay. Looks like an interesting book to me, and there's a link in the article to a website with what looks like content from the book, all in a nice, caring "Dear new developer" letter form.

Sure, but I'd prefer the link to the site itself, at least. As it is, there's very little content in the link (the book isn't even available yet).

It was released last year and is indeed available.

Ah, so the post isn't even accurate? I had to click three times (two of which were on the book logo on the sidebar) to actually get to the book itself. Anyway, I'll stop complaining now.

>It was released last year and is indeed available.

It's confusing because the url the HN user submitted was dated "August 2, 2020" and it has a future tense sentence: "The book arrives in August. I hope you’ll check it out.

Since the book was already released, the better link (which lists the TOC) is probably: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/

Thanks! The link you share is indeed the best one to learn more about the book.

It is actually the other way around. The book was drawn from the website. About 10% of the book is new content (not available on the website) and the other 90% was rewritten and reviewed by both copy editors and technical reviewers.

Anyway, the website is forever free and is here: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/

Cheers!

Debugging is harder than you think.

Keep code simple.

Try to understand what you are setting out to do.

As Brooks said, plan for a rewrite cuz you’re going to do it anyway.

Seems interesting and something I have been looking for. Does anyone know who Dan Moore is and what his credentials are?

Hiya!

You can learn more about me in a few places:

  * https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/about/ (probably most relevant, includes career history and podcast interviews)
  * https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mooreds has HN stuff
  * https://github.com/mooreds which has links to most of my social profiles
  * https://www.mooreds.com/about.shtml (oldschool, see .shtml!)

Hope this helps.

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