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How to become a Good Programmer ?
By: magbytes120 Date: June 25, 2017, 1:57 pm
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A good programmer is not a word that can find its definition in
the dictionary. Good programming skills are essential to success
and in discovering the joys of programming. As seen with many
successful programmers over the past, here are some points that
can be followed by those who are in pursuit of a successful
career in programming.
How to become a Good Programmer?
1. Work on Basics
As it is true for any industry and any job, the conceptual
understanding is the key to success. Unless one has a strong
conceptual foundation, he/she can never be a good programmer.
The core conceptual understanding helps you in designing and
implementing the best solutions in the best possible way. If
still you feel a gap in core computer science and your
programming language specific concepts, it’s never too late to
go back and review the basics.
2. You learn more by helping others
Most of us have a common tendency of turning our heads towards
forums or groups only when we need help. And again a clear
separation between the good programmer and rest that the
former’s visit these places more often to help others. This
makes them learn more then they learn to get their problem
solved by someone else. Within a team as well, help others to
solve their problems. Believe me, understanding others’ problem
in their context, investigating on that and providing solutions;
will leave you much more learned than before.
3. Write simple, understandable but logical code
As in almost every aspect of life, the formula of ‘Keep it
simple and short’ works in programming as well. Write more
logical code and avoid complexity. Sometimes people do write
complex code just to prove their capability to write such codes.
My experience says that simple but logical codes always works
well, resulted in fewer issues and are more extendable. I
remember an excellent quote
4. Spend more time in analyzing the problem, you’ll need less
time to fix it
Spend more time in understanding and analyzing the problem and
designing solutions for it. You will find the rest of the things
quite easily doable. Designing not always mean using modeling
languages and tools, it can be as simple as looking at the sky
and thinking the solution in your mind. Those who have habits of
pressing keyboard (for coding) the moment get the problem,
usually ended us something different than the requirement.
5. Be the first to analyze and review your code
Also: Best Websites to Learn Programming Online
Although a bit difficult, but try to break your own code before
others can and with the time you will learn to write
close-to-bug-free code. Always do a close and unbiased review of
your code. Also never hesitate to take others view on your code.
Working with good programmers and taking their feedbacks will
surely help you become a good programmer.
6. Don’t dismay yourself by looking at changing technology world
Over these periods in IT industry, I met with many people who
are either disappointed by their work or even left it to search
new job saying they want to learn and work in latest
technologies. I don’t see any problem with this aspiration but
the very first incorrect word is the ‘latest technologies’. What
we are hearing every day and mean here is new tools, APIs,
frameworks and others means coming up everyday to make the
programming easier and quicker.
This anyway will continue in the technology world. But what
needs to be understood is that the core and basic technologies
change with much lesser pace than frameworks, tools and APIs
around it.
This is like the sea where the surface water moves very rapidly
but the deep water is relatively calm and concentrated and most
of the aqua lives survive here. So, feel yourself in that deep
water and close to core technologies. For e. g. in Java
enterprise world, lots of web frameworks exist and new ones
coming every other week. But the core concepts of request based
client-server communication, MVS pattern, filters/servlets/JSP,
resource bundling,
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