[HN Gopher] Ask HN: I just got my first job and I need to learn ...
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       Ask HN: I just got my first job and I need to learn faster and
       better
        
       A little background: Self-taught web developer, hired to work with
       both frontend and backend code. This is my first software
       development job.  My problem is, I'm slow to pick the technologies
       needed to start working on JIRA tickets. I'm working together with
       another junior developer (also self-taught, started same day with
       me) but I'm just stuck eating his dust. I decided to put egos aside
       and ask him for help and the only thing I got was generic advice,
       which I already do (read the docs, understand what you read, try
       building their tutorials/getting started section, read more code,
       trial and error).  Either I'm inherently slow and it's time to
       accept the natural limits of my brain or there's a better method
       that would work for me and I'm missing it.
        
       Author : Arisaka1
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-03-08 22:49 UTC (12 minutes ago)
        
       | awb wrote:
       | What language? And what kinds of tasks are you finding yourself
       | slower at than the other junior dev?
        
       | DougMellon wrote:
       | Have you identified what it is that you are specifically slower
       | at?
        
       | 999900000999 wrote:
       | Start a side project using the same exact stack.
       | 
       | You need to start practicing outside of work. I'm also self
       | taught. But you need to never stop self teaching. I learn 90% of
       | what I know outside of work, and I've been a software engineer
       | for a good while
        
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