1. Practice makes perfect.
If you want to be a competent software developer, you need to invest time in perfecting your skills and your craft. You also need to cultivate a passion for problem-solving–a critical skill in software development.
2. Master a language, but familiarize yourself with other languages too.
Mastering just one coding language can limit your future career prospects. Instead, you should try to broaden your competence and learn as many languages as you can. This can help you become more desirable to future employers, co-founders, or business partners.
3. Become an adaptive problem-solver.
Understanding when to use technologies or techniques, and knowing which are best for various problems will make you a better developer. You’ll be more valuable to your team and more confident in your decisions. Never try to force fit a tool to a problem, just because that's what you know best. Always be prepared to find the best solution.
4. Practice building real pieces of software.
Traditional tests are not enough. You need to do your own independent study/research and implement it in a real project. This is the best way to improve and display your skills, and MMDC will do just that for you. We champion the Projects, Problems, and Cases Method that will allow you to execute what you will learn in situations relevant to your future career.
5. Get a degree at a reputable college like MMDC to help you develop the right skills.
You need to invest in the right school for you to hone the most cutting edge skills in preparation for the job that you want. At MMDC, we'll make sure that you will have the opportunity to enhance your capabilities, while providing you with a holistic college experience.
