---
title: "What has one year of developer’s life taught me 👷"
description: "Reflecting on a year of growth as a developer. Discover key lessons learned, valuable skills gained, and insights for your own journey."
author: "Mansi Shah"
category: "Engineering"
published: "2017-06-11"
reading_time: "2 min read"
canonical: "https://www.solutelabs.com/blog/what-has-one-year-of-developers-life-taught-me"
---

# What has one year of developer’s life taught me 👷

### **Understand and CODE, Don’t copy paste. 🙄**

During the starting phase of our development career, most of us are inclined towards getting a *speedy* *output, ‘*by hook or by crook’ kinda approach. Monkey coding. But that is dangerous, *very dangerous*. ⚠️

### **It’s all in your head baby! 🤕**

Calm down if your IDE turns red, it doesn’t mean that Lord Voldemort has returned back, just *Avada Kedavra* it. Relax and debug, there is always a solution (If not, there is definitely a patch, but keep it for the worst scenario, patches are not welcome in the family ❌)

### **Compete with your own self. 👽**

Challenge your self everyday, if not daily, at least every week. Demand and challenge the better version of your self, it’s a good practice.

### **Accept challenges and welcome changes. 😎**

Just think once, if you hadn’t got ***challenging*** tasks or a drastic ***change*** to adopt in your regular code, wouldn’t you be doing something that can be called data entry 🤔 These guys are actually **made** for our growth. 🤗

### **You’re never too old to learn something new. 🤓**

*Stay hungry, stay foolish*. Avoid being shy to learn something silly that you don’t know, avoid overthinking of what people will think of you.

### **Relax and have fun**

Well do I need to explain anything here ? 👻