Master These 5 Skills Beyond Coding for a Successful Dev Career in 2023
Unlock your full potential as a developer by mastering five essential skills beyond coding, from systems thinking and prompt engineering to API integration and debugging.
- 1. Learning to code was enough five years ago, but now you need more than just typing Python into a keyboard.
- 2. If you don't master these five skills, you'll be left behind: systems thinking, prompt engineering and AI, URL shortener/Docker, API integration and design, debugging.
- 3. Systems thinking involves understanding how different parts of a system work together as a whole.
- 4. Prompt engineering and AI includes using APIs to interact with AI models and making them accessible for others.
- 5. Building a URL shortener using Docker requires knowledge of containerization and deployment.
- 6. API integration and design involves understanding Rest vs GraphQL, naming conventions, HTTP status codes, authentication and authorization methods, and pagination techniques.
- 7. Debugging involves reading stack traces, binary search debugging, logging tools, and understanding common types of bugs.
- 8. Systems level debugging requires using commands like top or ps in Linux to inspect system processes, memory usage, file handles, etc.
- 9. Mastering code-level debugging involves using tools like VS Code debugger, PDB, Python Chrome dev tools, error tracing, and performance profiling.
- 10. Good developers have a mindset of diagnosing and fixing anything that goes wrong in the system or code.
Source: Tech with Tim via YouTube
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