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Quoting the poster, “I started out knowing nothing about programming last summer and eventually got myself hired at a company I really love a few months ago. I know there have been a lot of posts here about the courses and tutorials people followed to get a job but this post is mainly about the differences I experienced between coding as a hobby and as a profession. It is a long post and broken down into two parts the technical aspects and the soft skills.”

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    I hadn’t heard of the ninety-ninety rule before which someone mentioned in the comments. Sounds about right.

    The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.