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Some things I wish I knew when I first started learning about software development

This post has actually been "baking" in the back of my mind for quite some time now. Initially I actually wanted to do a presentation with most of the content of this post based on some important open source project but I could not find the motivation to actually finish the presentation because it ended up being a bit complicated. Also, this post is actually the result of me interacting with a few developers at the very beginning of their careers and also seeing the behavior of various students at university. So this post will be mostly about some of the obstacles that most people face in the beginning of their careers but not only this. The first thing that comes in my mind is that people panic too fast when trying to learn something and actually stop trying, thinking and focusing on learning. I looked into this and I noticed several things. One of the most obvious thing is that people are scared of abbreviations or pompous words. And in this field you will notice them a