Volkan Özçelik

Volkan Özçelik

Mountain View, CA

You Need Testing

Yes, there are frameworks like Jest, Mocha, and Jasmine. There are even test runners like Karma; however, without proper Behavior-Driven Development and Test Driven Development foundation, you will not benefit from those tools. — Testing is all about the mindset.

Security Is Not Optional

No matter what you develop, application security, infrastructure security, and having proper authorization and authentication mechanisms are critical. The earlier you learn about them in your development career, the better.

Paint Me Like One of Your French Design Patterns

The more you are in software engineering, the more you realize that similar problems are repeated all the time. Moreover, those similar sets of issues are often solved using similar approaches. That’s where design patterns come in handy.

Who Else is Ready to Hack?

Everything the majority of the world knows about hackers is entirely and utterly wrong. There’s a way to fix this by showing, to the rest of the world, that we, hackers, can hack the world and make it a better place to live.

Knowing JavaScript Is Not Good Enough

Especially on social media, I see and read this preached a lot: “Learn JavaScript and you won’t need to learn anything else; you can do everything with JavaScript, from front-end, to back-end. It is the best investment you’ll ever make!” — That’s a complete and utter 🐴💩.

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