Understanding before

The feeling of pride of belonging to the university you studied at sounds like a common thing worldwide. But what if your university was in a 3rd world country, with poor/none internet access and lack of resources? Would we feel the same? Well ... YES.

The University of Havana taught me to code without internet, something that I'll always appreciate because it forces me to really understand what's behind each line of code I write. I hope to keep this custom as long as possible.

In our first years in "La Colina" my classmates and I wrote most of the software in paper sheets or in a lab at midnight, without internet but having us as the community to throw questions and catch answers. We were our own StackOverflow. This situation forced us somehow to consult books instead of surfing the internet, to figure out solutions instead searching them; taught us (or at least taught me) do not provide solutions or code that we don't understand, as an effect of being unable to copy/paste source code from the web. Combining the possibility of searching for existing solutions to the problem and believing in the religion of understanding the chosen solution before deploying is a strong weapon in a software crafter hands.

I hope to never forget about this weapon, is the least I can do to thank back to my university for consciously or unconsciously providing it to me.

I dedicate this post to Rene Raul ( founder of skyplanner ) and Dustin ( software engineer at Linkedin  ) for sharing their related experiences.

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