How to code
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The document provides tips for becoming a better programmer, including getting interested in programming, learning tools and languages, understanding algorithms and data structures, practicing different approaches to problem solving, collaborating with other programmers, and constantly learning new skills and paradigms over many years.
How to code
- 1. How to start... And how to finish... How to code
- 2. Is it for me ? You don't care about your code.
- 3. You want to code.
- 4. You know that your code is not best.
- 5. You want to be best.
- 6. You are done with college/school exercise.
- 7. Get Interested Your should like programming.
- 8. Create a programming environment around.
- 9. Get Aware Change your books, if it is YK.
- 10. Change your compiler, if it is TC++.
- 11. It might if wonderful if you can shift to a better OS like Debian Linux, Mac
- 12. Join Mailing lists/Groups like LUGs.
- 13. Learn helper tools. Learn your OS, If it is Windows better change it.
- 14. Learn a good editor like emacs/vim.
- 15. Learn utilities like grep, find, ssh, scp, git, etc ...
- 16. Learn how to diff, merge, patch.
- 17. Learn few scripting language like bash, perl etc.
- 18. Theory and algo Read all the API at least once.
- 21. Master Internals of computer hardware.
- 22. Understand Software development cycle.
- 23. Understand Understand your problem statement.
- 24. Ask questions.
- 25. Discuss.
- 26. Create conclusion of understanding.
- 27. Close all the open ends.
- 28. Narrow down the problem.
- 29. Approach Learn the domain of problem.
- 30. Gather the knowledge required.
- 31. Use simple logic but complex data structure.
- 32. Logic Use a paper and pen, write your logic.
- 33. Discuss.
- 35. Differentiate Instructions and data.
- 36. Abstract with objects. :)
- 37. Create a borderline between different objects.
- 38. Follow MVC.
- 39. Talk Talk to other programmers.
- 41. Profile them.
- 42. Learn the difference and analyze.
- 43. Incorporate these improvements in your code.
- 44. Try try again Try multiple approaches.
- 47. Study Study different paradigms.
- 50. Be best and worst Work in a project where you are the worst programmer.
- 51. Work in a project where you are the best programmer.
- 52. Learn from one and apply it on the other.
- 53. Maintain Takeover an existing project and develop
- 54. Join a large active project.
- 55. Revive a dead project.
- 56. Learn from these experiences to avoid mistakes you could have done.
- 57. Be swiss knife Learn half a dozen language.
- 58. Learn half a dozen programming paradigm.
- 59. Work on more then one platform.
- 60. Know your 'computer' in depth.
- 61. Follow Rules Know language standardization.
- 63. Get involved in it.
- 64. Get off at right time. :)
- 65. Bibliography How To Become A Hacker Eric Steven Raymond
- 66. http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years Peter Norvig
- 69. irc://irc.freenode.net/lugb Rocker http://shishirsharma.com Mail me: cpt [at] lugj [dot] in