There’s no better teacher than running code in production.
I am self taught and had no mentors for the first decade of my career. During that time I did things nobody else could do, things I was told were impossible.
Eventually I read some books and they added useful tools.
Read all the books from SICP to Superintelligence (ie concrete to speculative fiction).
But nothing is as educational as putting what you read into production, or putting it into production and fucking it up. I’d rather work with someone who has deleted a production database (ideally a preproduction database to be fair) than someone who hasn’t.
I am self taught and had no mentors for the first decade of my career. During that time I did things nobody else could do, things I was told were impossible.
Eventually I read some books and they added useful tools.
Read all the books from SICP to Superintelligence (ie concrete to speculative fiction).
But nothing is as educational as putting what you read into production, or putting it into production and fucking it up. I’d rather work with someone who has deleted a production database (ideally a preproduction database to be fair) than someone who hasn’t.