How-To: Be an Über Coder

#1

Post by ZenDan » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 5:55 AM UTC

Re: How-To: Be an Über Coder

#2

Post by SamReidHughes » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 6:39 AM UTC

This is missing some natural categories of things.

- Create a pet project. A subset of which is to create an open source pet project. As opposed to contributing to an existing one.

- Get a job. It does so much to improve programming ability.

- Also do exercises in books. It's one thing to do Project Euler problems, and it's a different kind of thing to do TaPL exercises or presumably CTM exercises, or problems in some signal processing book.

- Get a real ergonomic keyboard, now! And use it. Unless you get sufficient wrist exercise from some other activity, you should do this.

Re: How-To: Be an Über Coder

#3

Post by ZenDan » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

SamReidHughes wrote: post #2

This is missing some natural categories of things. - Create a pet project. A subset of which is to create an open source pet project. As opposed to contributing to an existing one. - Get a job. It does so much to improve programming ability. - Also do exercises in books. It's one thing to do Project Euler problems, and it's a different kind of thing to do TaPL exercises or presumably CTM exercises, or problems in som…

I agree... especially about the keyboard!