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The Full Stack Developer: Your Essential Guide to the Everyday Skills Expected of a Modern Full Stack Web Developer
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The Full Stack Developer: Your Essential Guide to the Everyday Skills Expected of a Modern Full Stack Web Developer

by Chris Northwood
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
10h 34m
English
Apress
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© Chris Northwood 2018
Chris NorthwoodThe Full Stack Developerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4152-3_2

2. Planning Your Work

Chris Northwood1 
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Manchester, UK
 

Developers who are just starting out often believe that their job is to build what they’re told to build by their managers or clients. The more experienced a developer becomes, the more they realize that building the right thing is more important than building the thing right. A quick hack that does what the user needs it to do is much better than a beautifully crafted codebase that doesn’t solve the user’s problem, although a working but hacked-together system will quickly stifle progress.

Having an effective way to develop plans for the work you’re going to do is the best way to ensure ...

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