My Biggest Mistake in CS & Lessons Learned 💡

"One learns from mistakes," as the saying goes. However, some mistakes are painful, especially when they have significant consequences but could have been easily avoided with a little thought. In this video, Golo Roden, founder and CTO of the native web GmbH, shares his biggest mistake during his computer science studies — and what he learned from it.

00:00 – Introduction
00:44 – The Software Internship
01:43 – Java vs C#
02:38 – Recreating eBay
03:20 – No Version Control
04:04 – Pen-and-Paper Style
05:06 – The Big Refactoring
06:05 – Where is our project?
06:56 – A Lost Workday
07:33 – The Purpose of Backups
08:13 – Non-destructive Approach
09:09 – Conducting Test Runs
09:47 – Pressing the Pause Button
10:27 – How the Story Ends

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About the native web 🦄

We are a consulting, training, and development company specializing in web and cloud technologies. We strive for intelligent and elegant solutions to complex problems, and we believe that software development is not an end in itself. Instead, software should solve actual problems in the real world.

We believe that native web and cloud technologies form the foundation upon which the future is built. Our core competence is the design and development of distributed web and cloud applications using these technologies in interdisciplinary teams. We also develop our own open-source framework named wolkenkit. And we love to share our knowledge in training and workshops, at conferences, and with user groups.

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