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Wander_Nomaddd posted...

I wish they would've had a programming class at my high school

My high school programming class was horrible. Really bad teacher, and me and another kid who did things as a hobby just finished the projects in a day (I even did some additional photoshop for UX for funsies) then spent the rest of the time playing games. We probably should have helped the other kids... But also wasn't our job.

GrabASnickers posted...

Isn't that more part of a software architect's role? Idk how it works everywhere, but at my current job we have architects specifically to make those kind of decisions. I could see it being different at smaller/newer places though.

Well I'm a senior dev so that's part of my role. Architects in my experience typically set the tone for higher level what direction we're going in, what tech options we have, and weigh in sometimes. But generally think about a bigger company wide picture, not how to design individual projects fully.

I still have to look at the myriad of things we have and how to use that as I design the my project and the details, how everything works together, when and how to process things, how to implement it with all those things in mind. Even when it gets down to the very bottom with how you code things, you can do it in ways that are more scalable than others (making use of caches, batching, parallelism, etc).

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