Apprenticeship Patterns Blog 1

I started reading from the preface to start getting a background of what the book is about, which I got a pretty good idea on how the book tries to deliver its message. I found chapter 1 “Daves story” very interesting. I actually enjoyed reading how he gave up so many times then ended up sticking with it. Reading this part of the book makes me interested in reading more because I feel the same as he does in certain scenarios. I always find myself going back to C++ because it is my native language, while Java is very similar, I just keep falling back to C++ no matter if I try Python, html, CSS, typescript JavaScript. All these languages are not used for the same thing but there is a comfort in C++ for me even though it took me some time to properly learn how to use it. Having this to relate to makes me feel not alone because it is tough learning something and getting comfortable to then learning something new, you must step out into discomfort whether you like it or not and he explains this very well. I ended up jumping to chapter 3 since the first chapter made a reference to it as well as how Dave described reading the book in a nonlinear fashion. I like how page 52-53 explain that a promotion is not always the next best thing and that you need to leverage what you have and the opportunity itself. He talks about not giving in to a position that takes you away from programming, which a lot of the times moving up in a company requires less work from my experience which dulls out the skills you spent years mastering. The best way I can explain it is when you have a car and do not use it/work on it all the parts overtime regardless of use will go bad the car will rust. If you wash the car and use it a lot the rust will take much longer to come in as well as other car problems. This was my understanding of what I read and it is pretty much to keep working on what you enjoy and like and to not just go for a promotion because you think it is the next best thing, when in reality it could be ruining all those years of hard work into learning such skills.