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Thanks. I have been working on a few things of my own but have not put the source up on GitHub as I am still pretty embarrassed with my code quality. I mostly use Java and I quite like the language, it requires more lines of code than pretty much any other language but I also kind of like that about it. It certainly makes it easier to come back to a few days or weeks later. Almost self documenting by default.

I also really enjoy C but I feel it is a language that requires at least some CS knowledge to really understand it.

I have pretty good PM knowledge yes, that does help me keep organised and break things up into small, manageable deliverables. I have also worked with developers so I kind-of get how they work, the thins I found hard working with them, etc.

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I'll be blunt. Your code is crap. Everyone's code is crap. Code I did 2 years ago was crap. Code I did 10 years ago: shudder.

Don't worry so much about what you "should" be doing and just have fun with it. I ended up making an Android app 3 years ago to help out my wife do "party sales". It ended up with 15k downloads. If I would have actually tried to turn that into a business, it might have actually worked. Was it good code? No. Is it on github. No. Do I say I had 15k downloads on an Android App at every meet up / interviews? Hell yes.

Here's a rant I did when my company was in interview mode: http://www.davepagel.com/?p=58. That will get you to where I'm coming from.