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Great Developers Never Stop Learning

7 ways I.T. Professionals can foster a continuous learning mindset

Semi Koen
TDS Archive
10 min readAug 30, 2019

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Technology moves forward — so should you!

As software engineers, developers or architects, it is pivotal to stay current and relevant within the technologies and the domains we work. Some of the skills we studied a few years ago at uni have become outdated, so unless we get in charge of our learning we will lose our competitiveness. Also, we quite often sacrifice learning and development in favour of project deadlines.

This short-term thinking carries a long-term price!

Although it is impossible to stay up to speed with everything in this rapidly changing world of I.T., we need to choose a few areas that interest us (whether these areas are related to our current job, or the one we want in the future) and carve time out to up-skill.

Step #1 towards continuous learning is to set time aside!

In this article I will share the ways I use to sharpen my skills and a couple of others that are next in my list!

❶ — The Art of Reading

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Semi Koen
Semi Koen

Written by Semi Koen

Passionate about creating elegant software. Fuelled by iced coffees & witty words. Currently in Japan. Opinions are my own; often flawed

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