In this episode, we talked with Abderraouf Ghrissi, founder of CodingBeTounsi. We talked about the possible ways of transitioning to the tech industry while sharing real-life experiences and some of his opinions about boot camps, the added value of the university experience, and perseverance in the learning process.

“Jack of all trades, master of none” is an idiom becoming pervasive in software development, especially in the early years of a developer’s career. The idea goes that a developer who dabbles in everything cannot be amazing at anything.

Gamification seeks to encourage participants’ behavior by borrowing elements of games, such as scoring points. Few rigorous studies exist on gamification in software organizations, and several questions have remained unanswered.

GraphQL is fast becoming a go-to query language for companies to interact with their data. Although data management is one of the top concerns for a lot of companies, many people don’t really understand what GraphQL does or why it’s so popular.

The Dunning Kruger Effect explains the illusion of competence at the start of learning something new to the point of ignorance.