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Foundation

Junior Developer

Become dependable with clearly defined work and build strong engineering habits.

The goal

Deliver small, well-tested changes while communicating progress and asking effective questions.

1

Technical foundations

Understand the tools and concepts used in everyday development.

Set up a local development environment and understand its moving parts
Use Git branches, commits, pull requests, and resolve basic conflicts
Understand HTTP requests, responses, methods, headers, and status codes
Work confidently with variables, functions, data structures, and asynchronous code
Write basic SQL queries and understand tables, keys, and relationships
Build responsive, accessible interfaces

2

Quality and debugging

Learn to prove that code works and find causes instead of guessing.

Reproduce a bug consistently before changing code
Read errors, stack traces, logs, and network requests
Use breakpoints and isolate a failing assumption
Write focused unit and integration tests
Validate input and handle expected failure states
Test loading, empty, error, success, and permission states

3

Team habits

Make your work easy for teammates to understand and review.

Break a ticket into small, verifiable tasks
Give early updates when blocked or when scope changes
Write pull requests that explain what changed, why, and how it was tested
Receive feedback without treating it as a personal criticism
Ask questions with context, evidence, and what you already tried
Document setup steps and non-obvious decisions

Projects to practice

→Build and deploy a CRUD application backed by a real database
→Add authentication and authorization to an existing application
→Write tests around a critical user flow
→Fix a documented bug in an unfamiliar repository

Evidence of growth

Delivers small changes without repeated follow-up fixes
Can explain how their code works and how it was tested
Raises blockers early and incorporates review feedback
Leaves code and documentation clearer than they found it