Developers should learn economics and cultural anthropology on top of technical skills, according to Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky .
“Developers should learn ethnography and how to study people. Increasingly software intermediates between people. All of the software getting created today is a social thing,” Spolsky tells Techworld . © GeekWire “You can’t use Snapchat unless you have friends on there. So as a developer you should learn how people use software and watch them in context,” he adds.
In terms of programming languages, Spolsky had the following advice: “Python is growing in importance. We’re increasingly seeing programmers use modern trendy […]
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