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Best of the Hedge: 18, Programming Skills for Network Engineers

October 16, 2026 · 32 min

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Network engineers do not need to become full-time coders to succeed–but some coding skills are really useful. In this episode of the Hedge, David Barrosso (you can find David’s github repositories here), Phill Simonds, and Russ White discuss which programming skills are useful for network engineers.

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