Experienced vs Inexperienced Python Developers — What's the Difference?

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cool Python question that I got from a debater orga reader so what techniques do experienced Python developers use versus inexperienced ones really interesting questions so that's why I wanted to tackle it in this YouTube video so some of my thoughts here I think there are some differences in how an experienced developer approaches writing code versus an inexperienced one and a lot of it has to do with I think with an intuition about how to tackle the problem once you've been programming for a while you know once you've attacked like once you've worked on many programming problems and you've written and shipped real-world application you kind of get this intuitive sense of how you might want to tackle a specific problem so you you surf develop these heuristics that will help you to be more productive than an inexperienced developer and some of it has to do with just being more skilled at you know maybe pacing yourself and having better project management management skills so you know you know you know how to solve the ultimate goal at hand and you kind of know how to work towards that and how to lay the foundation for example what I've seen is that it's very easy for beginners to paint themselves into a corner you know maybe you solve the immediate problem at hand but you do it in a way that means you can't solve the next two or three problems that an experienced developer might see already coming down the pike you you kind of have a harder time solving those and that's what compounds and slows you down over time you know I know super abstract example but it's kind of hard to point to really concrete things so it's more a more an intuition and an experience thing but I also want to point out some concrete things that that you can actually you know work on instead of just saying like oh you just got to write more code so another thing is that experienced developers are usually better at debugging so they have experience using the the tools they need for for debugging their programs or you know maybe they're just more experienced at again having an intuition how to debug a program but in general I in my experience many inexperienced developers and new developers they overlook the power off debugging and building up building it up as a skill you know because you almost want to approach it like like scientific research right you want to have sort of a theory at hand and and look for it for evidence whether or not what you're what are you trying the problem you're trying to solve is actually like the real underlying issue and I found that a lot of beginners are struggling with that kind of mindset and if you know if something unexpected happens then it's it's very easy for them to get stuck and kind of not know where where to go and where to look for for help and how to debug their program I think another thing is that an experienced developer just has strategies that that they can use to solve most problems that they encounter you know they either they know who to reach out to who ask personally for help they know how to Google for stuff which is probably the most important skill honestly you know they know how to turn the problem that they're facing how to turn it into keywords and what to type into a search engine in order to get an answer for the problem that they're working on and again that's you know that's a super useful skill these days because that is how most programming work is done right you're not just sitting in a vacuum there and you're writing everything from scratch like no you know professional developers Google for stuff all the time I search for stuff they look up stuff on Stack Overflow maybe they ask their friends maybe they're part of some community where they can ask questions and you can of course if you're working with a company you can just always tap someone on your shoulder and be like hey you know I know you have a lot of experience like working with this kind of problem can just sit with me and we'll try and tackle this so it's it's also matter about knowing how to help themselves I think let's see I can't really think about anything anything else here but all of these things are things that that come with experience and they usually not thinks you can just teach yourself by reading a book you know they're more like meta skills if you will so the best way to learn is to work with an experienced developer and to kind of have that color off on you alright if you have another Python question then leave a comment below and I'll try and tackle it in one of my next videos if you liked this video then well please click the like button and subscribe to my channel