Things to remember for new developers

I was recently asked to attend a 3rd year BSC class’ year-project presentation. I was there to be the voice of the real world; someone who actually writes code in anger every day. My role was to watch the presentations, and give some feedback on any issues I saw. As I was watching the presentations, I came up with a list of things / issues/ areas that I thought the students should be aware of, or focus on next. I figured that list would make a good series of blog posts as well.

This post is just to introduce the idea, and get the list down. Each of the items listed below will become a short blog post of its own as I get to them. I promise I’ll get to them: