The biggest thing that has jumped out at me is there seems to be a whole generation of programmers that can't troubleshoot or debug. Some of the requests for help from devs that I get is troubling to say the least. Talking with people at my user group meetings it's becoming worse and worse.
My theory is that I'm the last of a generation of developers who learned to program without the Internet. I started learning QBasic when I was 8 and progressed through C++, Perl and .NET. Back then you HAD to learn to break problems down and use logic to troubleshoot. You couldn't just Google the problem.
Google and StackOverflow are great resources but you have to understand how to approach and break down problems if you ever want to be a good developer.
My theory is that I'm the last of a generation of developers who learned to program without the Internet. I started learning QBasic when I was 8 and progressed through C++, Perl and .NET. Back then you HAD to learn to break problems down and use logic to troubleshoot. You couldn't just Google the problem.
Google and StackOverflow are great resources but you have to understand how to approach and break down problems if you ever want to be a good developer.