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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

You're reading from   Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career 65 steps to becoming a better developer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287037
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface I. Coder Skills FREE CHAPTER II. Freelancer Skills III. Career Skills Index

Chapter 52. Is it Possible to Lose Your Coding Skills?

This topic was inspired by a Boing Boing article (http://boingboing.net/2016/06/08/coder-fired-after-6-years-for.html) that tells the story of a QA developer who spent 6 years working for a company and literally did nothing besides playing computer games, browsing Reddit, and wasting his time.

The Reddit user, FiletOfFish1066, posted his story to the site and it instantly became a supreme case study for what happens when you don't continue to develop your coding skills.

After not working for 6 years, he says that he has completely forgotten how to develop and now he's out of a job. The story goes that he started working as a software tester and realized that, by writing some scripts, he could fully automate his job. So, he worked for about 8 months building testing scripts and after that he simply let the tests run. He didn't have to do anything besides kick back and play video games all day. There are a number...

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