Hello — teaching to backend, six months in

Asked by Rafael Mendes · 219 views · 2 replies

Rafael Mendes8 messages · 1 solution

Taught secondary maths for nine years and switched last year. Working through PHP and SQL here, and the graded practice is the part that has actually moved me — reading an explanation and thinking "yes, obviously" turns out to be nothing like being able to write it.

Currently stuck in the part where I can read anyone's code and write almost none of it. I gather that phase ends eventually.

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Daniela Rocha

Welcome. It does end, and not by reading more — it ends by writing bad versions of things you have already read. The gap you are describing is the whole reason the practice problems run your code instead of checking it looks right.

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Tomasz Wiśniewski

Nine years of explaining things to people who do not yet understand them is a better preparation for this job than most computer science degrees. Keep the habit.

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