What was wrong with me when I was younger?

5 important things I learned in my first years as a Software Developer

Here are some examples of things I learned in my first years as a software developer. It’s about documentation, writing code, and mindset.

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Corporate life as a software developer is not easy sometimes. I had my struggles in earlier years and want to show you what I experienced and what I learned from it.

Every line of code probably had a reason when it was written
Starting in a project that existed for several years can be tricky. You have to deal with processes, colleagues, and the codebase which sometimes has very old parts that haven’t been touched in a long time. Nevertheless, you need to dig into it and start doing your job.
One of my bigger mistakes was to not question the reasons for code parts. I just looked at it and said this was bad, I could do this better, more elegant, or different. But the thing is that every code part has a history and at the point of time it was written there were most certainly reasons why it was written that way. Be it the complicated process, be it the lack of knowledge of the developer, or be it the fact, that everybody on the team wrote such code.
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