Yes. You read that right. I am, indeed, not a programmer. I know, I know… My CV says that I am a programmer. It also mentions all the programming languages I know. I even consistently write blogs in…

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Sherief Shahin is a software developer and author of the blog ‘I Am Not a Programmer’ He argues that the way we define software developers is outdated. He says that the most important trait a developer should have, in his opinion, is not being tested. Shahin: “We have a problem, how do we solve it with code?”

I Am Not a Programmer: The New Era of Software Development

“I would rather work with someone who wrote a mediocre code assignment but can back up his thought process and is willing to learn to code better, over someone who wrote a “phenomenal” code assignment but cannot explain why the problem was tackled the way it was tackled”
Great Line 🙌🏻

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