Starting Your Journey in Coding: The Skills That You Actually Want To have
Spoiler alert: none of them are technical!
When looking to get started in your software development journey, one of the first things you’ll ask yourself is “Where do I start?”.
And while there are plenty of places that will happily list the same set of technicall skills, I strongly believe that the main areas in which you should focus are not technical.
These are some skills which are never listed in your typical job offers. They definitely help you either get your first job or to be considered a great dev, but because they’re not technical skills they can add to their resume, many new developers tend to skip them.
These are passive skills. You won’t actively have to use them, but rather, they’ll be there in the back of your mind helping you in your daily routine. The most frustrating part about them: there are no online courses or bootcamps that help you train them. These are soft skills that you need to be aware of in order to develop (if you don’t already have them).
I know this is probably not what you wanted to hear, but these are the cornerstone of growing as a developer, and you’ll need them in order to successfully train everything else. As you’re about to see, any technical skill…
