Learning Programming during the job?
- by Hossein
Introduction:
I have read and heard advice, about learning programming by accepting programming projects.
I need real assistance to understand this, because:
Problem:
Although, it would seem to me that one would gain much more technical knowledge by doing, real world projects, if one doesn't know much about a technology, it would add much more risk to the actual delivery of the final product! Even the smallest of real world projects could be too much for a newbie.
There is a contradiction here:
You need to know the job to do it!
and
It's recommended to do the job, in order to learn it!
Question:
Any personal experiences in this case would be very pleasant to know while describing:
How new was the subject to you? didn't have a clue at all? Or, did you have experience with similar technologies?
Was it a solo project or were you in a team? If team, then did others help you with learning it?
Did it work as expected? Did you deliver on time?
Do you recommend this approach to others as well?
