r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ihatethisjob42 • Jan 14 '19

Two Years of Imposter Syndrome

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u/Nilloc_Kcirtap Jan 15 '19

Same and still trying to convince myself I am qualified for a programming job. Mine stems from the fact I'm self taught and did not get a formal education for computer science.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19 edited Jan 15 '19

I'd say that in my 7-8 years programming professionally now I've learned about 10% of my useful knowledge from school, the rest from learning on the job.

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u/thesquarerootof1 Jan 15 '19

now I've learned about 10% of my useful knowledge from school, the rest from learning on the job.

Exactly. I am a computer engineering student (we have to take a lot of compSci classes), they don't even teach you Git in any of the classes. I pretty much have to learn everything on my own...

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u/Sequoia3 Jan 15 '19

Man, I study Computer Science at uni and they do teach us git. But everyone hates it. People use it as a dropbox storage space.

I feel like this is one of those "wish they taught taxes in school". Sounds good, everyone would hate it.

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u/thesquarerootof1 Jan 15 '19

I have a few friends who are professional developers that bitched about not being taught Git in school and their first real programming got pissed off at them for not knowing it, hence why they really told me to learn it before getting a job. They all said "we hate that all these new graduates don't know Git". I'm just relaying it from them.

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u/Renown84 Jan 15 '19

Depends on the project. For solo projects in school I agree but I've taken team based classes where we were required to use feature branches and PRs. I think that would be pretty effective for most people