My lab had a project that nobody tended to, an evangelist at the lab told me all the good things about linux and git so I bought a burner laptop for $250, wiped the disk, installed ubuntu and wrote 3000 lines of the crappiest code you can ever imagine.
But it worked.
So now when someone ask me for advice to start fresh in software engineering, I always tell them you just have to wipe your computer and install $DISTRO. And start from the terminal, everything else will just come naturally (with deadline pushing it might get faster).
My lab had a project that nobody tended to, an evangelist at the lab told me all the good things about linux and git so I bought a burner laptop for $250, wiped the disk, installed ubuntu and wrote 3000 lines of the crappiest code you can ever imagine.
But it worked.
So now when someone ask me for advice to start fresh in software engineering, I always tell them you just have to wipe your computer and install $DISTRO. And start from the terminal, everything else will just come naturally (with deadline pushing it might get faster).