How many promotions does it take to go from startup intern to Microsoft Principal?

It's a trick question to try and ask how many promotions a certain level takes in someone's career. While it might be interesting to hear the story, the hyper-focus on promotions is the wrong metric.

Are you new to CSharp? Have you used the switch statement?

The switch statement allows us to check conditionals, much like a chain of if-else statements.

Often, a switch statement is more performant but it can also offer the benefit of being more expressive -- especially when dealing with enums!

What the heck is a bitwise AND operator? And... Why?!

When we're dealing with enums in CSharp that are setup as flags, using the bitwise AND operator can be tremendously helpful.

Not every decision we make in software can or will be a permanent solution.

In fact, I'd probably argue that the only real guarantee we have is that things will change.

Here's why testing behaviors and not details is beneficial:

But before that, I need to be honest:

This is not a rule or the only way to test things.

I want to be clear that this approach has plenty of value.

But it's not the only approach.