chrisallen

I use terminus for code everywhere.

I don't have a CS degree (or any degree for that matter) and have been programming professionally for 3.5-4 years, 13 total. I never interned, but I spent a lot of time as a child/HS student writing code independently and working for a few open source projects. That got my foot in the door but until recently, it was rough finding work.

Any (career?) suggestions in general? I have a strong background in CS (I made prodigious use of ocw.mit.edu), and I feel competent at a practical level.

At this point, I'm just trying to pick a particular language to master while learning something esoteric on the side.

The technical debt is ever-present to my mind, but this is a registration page that involves a credit card transaction and represents direct revenue to my company.

It at least has to be tested thoroughly. The rest of the apps in the project are less important that in that respect (used internally, primarily).

I think at least one or a combination of these methods will resolve my qualms with how it's arranged right now. Thank you very much.

Edit: It is worth noting that I'm trying to keep the unit tests independent, however.