While on a vacation I got opportunity to reflect on 2022. As a result, I penned down my best programming lessons with elite clarity.
These 22 lessons will teach you early what I learned late about programming.
Let’s go! 🚀
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Programming is not hard. Consistency is.
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Knowing when to ask for help is an underrated developer skill.
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Programming is about solving problems. Not learning syntax.
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Staying away from the computer while planning code helps.
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You can learn any programming language once you understand programming.
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Programming is not a ‘rare’ skill anymore. Make efforts to stand out.
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Be comfortable failing. A lot. Until you figure it out.
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Open source has made programming a social activity.
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You can’t write right code with wrong thinking.
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Whiteboard > Keyboard, when solving a programming problem.
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You learn less by trying to learn all at once.
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Improve googling skills. You don’t need to build what you can search for.
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Failure is cheap in programming. So learn by doing.
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In programming, you get good by being bad.
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Learn to temporarily ignore the difficult parts of the problem and approach them later.
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Don’t stop at working solution. Learn other ways of solving the problem.
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Failure is feedback in programming. It just tells you what NOT to do.
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Pair programming improves coding and communication skills.
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Don’t expect things to work on the first try. Give it time.
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Programming is easy when you focus on fundamentals, not hacks.
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Taking a walk is the most underrated way to debug code.
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It takes time to learn programming. But it’s worth every effort.
That’s it!
I hope you find these lessons helpful.
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