A Junior Developer must have some basic skills like communications, organisations and analytic skills. He must organize his daily work. He chooses design structures and writes down the design decisions. The Junior Developer has to write his design solution and must be able to explain it. UML helps to communicate with other Developers. The Junior Developer works in a relative small area.
A Junior Developer should make mistakes, to learn the consequence of his solution.
The unconventional thinking of Junior Developers makes them creative.
Background knowledge will help a lot but there is no need for studying computer science. Some knowledge of program languages is important. A Junior Developer has to be interested in program languages. Testing the software to ensure quality is important. Domain knowledge is nice to have.
A Junior Developer has to do the simplest thing that can possibly work and expand his knowledge constantly.
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Mischa
