How to Be Proficient as a Software Developer

Mark Zuckerberg's father, Edward, was an entrepreneur, he taught him Atari BASIC Programming. [Moat Academy Logo]( [Moat Academy Logo] How to Be Proficient as a Software Developer The role of mentorship or expert coaching cannot be overemphasized when it comes to competence development and career growth. Mentoring is an approach of training and developing people, where more experienced person(s) (mentors) share their understanding and experience with less experienced person(s) ( mentees). This might not apply to all fields of endeavor but there are some fields that mentoring is highly necessary in order to attain greatness. Fields that can be described in the two following ways: - A field that is well developed such that the best performers have attained a level of expertise which clearly sets them apart from people who are just coming to the field. Examples are: musical performance,chess, and many individual and team sports. - A field that is competitive enough that performers have incentives to practice and improve. The software development field can be described as above: It is stratified - we have junior developers, senior developers etc and it is highly competitive - there are a lot of coding challenges and hackathons. When you try to review those that have attained greatness in some of the fields that fall into this category. For Instance, in Football: A quick google search on who was Messi's mentor will fetch Ronaldinho . And who was Ronaldinho's mentor will fetch our own Jay Jay Okocha; But do a search on who was Okocha's mentor, it will fetch nobody. Messi won a record eight ballon d'or awards, Ronaldinho won two FIFA world player of the year awards but unfortunately Okocha didn't win any 😞 Most people who attained greatness in these fields have benefited from mentoring/expert coaching such as Usain bolt with Glen Mill, Tobi Amusan with Lacena Golding-Clarke and many others. Since software development field fall into this category, it cannot be exempted: Let's take Mark Zuckerberg as a Case Study: Mark Zuckerberg's father, Edward, was an entrepreneur. He maintained a dental clinic at the family's residence. Computer programming was a hobby for Mark Zuckerberg. When he turned six, his father taught him Atari BASIC Programming. As Mark Zuckerberg became more interested in programming, he became very proficient. Within four to six years, Mark created ZuckNet, a chat network for his father's dental clinic and the rest of his family. Mark's family thought that he could develop much further and hence hired a software developer-teacher, David Newman. During this high school period, he enhanced his programming skills significantly. Source: an excerpt from toolhero's article In your software development journey, you need an expert coaching that knows where you are going and how to get there. This will help you maneuver learning plateaus among many other benefits: A learning plateau is flat place in a learning curve, indicating a period of little or no progress. We have heard of so many that have experienced stagnation in their learning journey: some stopped at CSS, Javascript even HTML and couldn't move no further while some even spent longer than they should on their road to mastery. At [Moat Academy]( we have a specially designed curriculum and effective pedagogy with our team of experts ( our trainers are well experienced software developers ) that enable our participants to achieve proficiency in short period of time. Be part of our 28th Cohort starting June 03, 2024 by applying on Our Alumni are enjoying accelerated careers within and outside the country! Duration: Monday - Friday ( 9:00 am to 3:00 pm) for 13 weeks [Apply Now]( When thinking of an accelerated career in software development, think Moat Academy Kind Regards, Your Team at Moat Academy © 2023 Moat Academy for Developers | 5,Ogunsiji Close, Off Adeboye Solanke Street, Allen Avenue, Lagos State You received this email because you subscribed to our career updates from HNJ Not interested anymore? [click here](EMAIL}/19032024/1/Moat19032024/1/) to unsubscribe.