Comment by Francisco Diez on "What makes me competent developer - competitive programming or side projects?"

CommentWhat makes me competent developer - competitive programming or side projects?

Francisco Diez

Golang backend developer. Freelance.

Mar 25, 2018

Actually, I think what it makes you a competitive developer it's to dominate very well a programming language.

For example, if you are a company that needs a development team for the company website (supposing it's a very complex website 😂) what would you contract?: A Pro in PHP or one that knows php, but he is not a pro,but he also programs in JavaScript but he isn't a pro, and he knows HTML and CSS but he isn't a pro. Well I don't know you but I would contract the Pro in PHP.

Hope was useful!! Good luck!

Hasen Judi

Disillusioned Web Developer

Mar 26, 2018

I think this is a bad answer. Proficiency is independent of language. A proficient programmer who spent the last 5 years in Java, can learn PHP and its libraries in a month and produce code at almost the same level of proficiency as another proficient programmer who has been using php for the last 5 years.

Mark

Mar 28, 2018

I think I might go for the second guy to be honest. (Or to be more honest, keep looking for someone who knows Ruby or Python or something).

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