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Apprenticeship Retro

Oct 14 2016

At the time of this writing I have approximately two weeks until the my apprenticeship comes to a close. I will not be blogging during the these last two weeks, so for what is likely to be my last blog post as an apprentice, I wanted to reflect on what I have since June.

Reading

7 Books read to date

Clean Code
Clean Coder
Test Driven Development: By Example
Refactoring
Agile Software Development: Pattern, Principles, and Practices
Extreme Programming Explained
Release It!

Blogging

Blogs written: 53
Most frequent tags:
- Vim - 8 posts
- SOLID - 7 posts
- SRP - 6 posts
- TDD - 5 posts
- patterns - 5 posts
- Java - 5 posts

Projects/Coding

Lines of code: lotz
Solo projects:
- TicTacToe
- HTTP Server
Number of client projects that I worked on at some capacity: 7
Console applications: 1
Web applications: 1
Mobile applications: 1

Other

Talks given: 1, but soon to be 2
Estimations given: 40-50
New languages I am very comfortable in now: Java, Clojure

Beyond apprenticeship

I have had plenty to keep me busy over the last 5 months. As the apprenticeship has been winding down, I have started to plan my approach continuing my growth as a developer.

As of now I have three things that I would like to start or continue with after my apprenticeship ends.

Blog 1-4 times a month

I have learned so much just by writing about something I don’t know about or fully understand yet. I would like to keep that up, but I would like to spend a bit more time on each post to get them nice and polished, and fully fleshed out.
Do a kata every day that I code

When I was studying music in college, I had a professor that would say “you should practice your instrument every day that you eat”. I am going to adapt that a bit, and do a kata every day that I open my laptop to write code.
Always have a technical book that I am working

Is there really anything to say about this one?

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