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You have a few years of programming experience, and you are aware that that's not a lot. It sounds to me like you are useful now.

On a team with more experienced developers, I'd probably have you working with parts of our test suite and the build system. Of course, you'd have to understand object orientation, which I can't assume from your description.

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I mean, maybe I'm talking out of my ass here but can you really learn any sort of software development these days without also picking up OOP? In the beginning I knew OOP existed and was a good idea but it took the better part of a year to really grasp how to make the best use of concepts like inheritance and separation of concerns.

With enough practice, though, it just becomes part of the fun -- building tidily organized systems, refactoring the code into specific objects to iron out redundancy.

I'm weak on TDD, though. I have a hard time getting excited about writing unit tests.

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