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A coworker yesterday sent me this link to a good blog post created by Karl David Moore that actually talks about things I, as many others, have seen day after day; and it is that many guys seem that just entered the Informatics, Computer Engineering or Computer Sciences school just because they thought it was cool (or I don’t know) and, as he says, half the guys that entered the grade graduate! And then, you ask them if they like to code and (what I recall from my college friends) is that 4 out of 20 liked to code, only one fifth!

I just recently told my team something that I read in The Pragmatic Programmer book a while ago, and that I do (even years before I bought the book) think is very important, which is that you and nobody else will really take care of your skills, you should invest on yourself because no one else knows for sure what you really like, your interests, weaknesses, strengths, etc. It’s basically the same that Karl mentions:

Developers that aren’t interested in what they do, don’t invest in themselves and don’t strive to improve not only their skills, but also those of their team mates. […] They will never read technology blogs or articles, they will never be found viewing DZone, TSS, infoQ and they will never pick up a technology book.

Go and read the full post, it’s called Beware, the developer who isn’t interested in development!