10 Ways To Make Your Programming Better
The proprietor of Megasoftwares,
top web development company in India, who himself has been and is a hardcore perfectionist developer, shares with you how to improve and enhance your programming skills.
- Learn new languages to benefit - Web development or programming is all about languages and their appropriate use and fusion. Many aspects in different web development languages are same, all that differs is the way of implementation. Learning new languages for web development programming like Haskel, Prolog, Lisp, Forth etc provide good educational experience and can then be used for committed projects too.
- Join team - Websites like Github, Bitbucket, Sourceforge etc. provide oppurtunities to work on open source projects with other programmers or developers. The challenges that come along while working with different brains will make you learn, hunt, dig, find solutions and hence enhance your web development knowledge, experience and confidence.
- Challenge your intelligence by reading - Reading good challenging programming/development books like A Discipline of Programming, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The Art of computer programming etc will help your development IQ reach the next level.
- Learn from own mistakes - Take up a development project. Write codes. Run it. Check for bugs or pitfalls as a general user. Rewrite codes. Learn from your own codes to get perfect results. A single web development project can make you learn easier and perfect codes for many more projects to be completed.
- Programming Puzzles are fun learning - Hit websites like Project Euler, codegolf.stackexchange.com and keep yourself entertained alongwith gaining fun experience and shortest ways of writing codes, all by yourself.
- Study codes - Be it from a senior's project or from perfect sources like Linux Kernel, MINIX3, studying unfamiliar codes might be stressful and boring at first but of course are knowledge enhancing and rewarding later.
- Be a part and follow - Get to programming blogs written by, shared by good web developers. Be a part by sharing your experiences, problems faced and your solutions. Share your knowledge to increase your own. Write your own blog, participate in discussions and help others solve their programming queries.
- Be familiar to the lower steps - Learn lower languages too and know about the parts and constituents of lower languages and machines to avoid yourself getting stuck at higher levels. Reading books on computer organization, operating systems, embedded systems, operating system driver development can be very helpful.
- Use your brains first - The more you do the more the development part of your web development programmer brain will work!! Try try again before hitting a direct solution aid somewhere.