5 Things College Doesn't Teach You About Real-World Coding I spent 4 years in college writing code for assignments, submitting zip files, and scoring marks. Then I stepped into a real internship — and realized how much I didn't know. Not about algorithms. About how actual software development works. Here are 5 things nobody told me — and I had to learn the hard way.

Version control is everything Reading someone else's code is harder than writing your own Debugging takes more time than coding Documentation matters more than you think Communication is a technic