Be Not Lured Into Distraction by the Latest Shiny New Objects

 

Kudos to Dev Op Dorian (here) for warning us coder wanna be's about the dangers of being distracted by the latest shiny new objects.

Dorian also makes good points about going public with your journey because that makes the commitment more real. Also find like situated others and perhaps connect with them on chat boards like Reddit and Discord. For me that means making it routine and habitual to check in on Reddit boards like r/PythonLearning,  r/learnprogramming, r/ObsidianMD, r/learnpython, r/careerguidance, .... but those are also the shiny distractions that Dorian warns of.

Props also to Dave Farley of Modern Software Engineering for explaining that OOP does not necessarily call for focusing on objects and can instead provide a blueprint for functions and/or data structures. See also FP vs OOP

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