Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 11/21/2022

(I missed last week. My apologies)

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Are Coding Bootcamps Worth It? How to Start a Career in Code

Granted, this article is on a website trying to sell boot camp enrollments, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t totally spot on. If you want to become a software developer, a boot camp is the way to go. A CS degree is expensive, will teach you things of little use to you in your career, and will take a lot longer.

The Art of Debugging

Debugging really is an art — and one that isn’t taught enough, especially in CS classes. It’s also a skill that can be learned. My best tip for debugging is “only change one thing at a time.”

GitHub Copilot Isn’t Worth the Risk

Copilot continues to be controversial in the developer community. I am not a lawyer, and neither is the writer of this article, but I can see the point: that copilot uses open source code without attribution.