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Software engineering today

Today the meaning of being a coder or coding, in general, has changed in the job market. Seeing some engineers out there who have it in their head that all they need to do is learn Python, bits of variables and do-while loops, and they could apply for jobs. It just doesn't work like that, I've known some engineers who haven't written a basic loop code for years now. People get an image of coding in their minds where there is a guy at a desk with a dark-themed terminal on the screen where he types on the keyboard going through the huge sums of code lines, along with the typing sounds in their heads. The beginner coders have this image of them going through lines of codes at their soon-to-be jobs and thus are engrossed with knowing all the possible statements of for loops and if-else statements in python or swift, or about defining classes in other languages. None of this fascination of the assuming mind helps in the real world. Over the years of the tech industry speci...