8 ways to become a better developer

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8 ways to become a better developer

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Contribute to open- source projects

• Contributing to open source is probably something
  every developer has thought about. You can engage
  and help the community , Practice programming in
  real environments , and add it to your portfolio.
  A lot of OSS projects are welcoming new users
  that can add to their repositories.

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Do more pair programming

• Pair programming is one of the best ways to share
  knowledge between programmers . You can learn
  from more experienced developers , or you could
  help out more junior developers . Either way,
  its a good thing and helps you to stay focused.

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Focus on problem- solving

• One thing that makes a good developer is the
  ability to focus on solutions instead of problems
  . Always try to find ways to deal with challenges.

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Practice regularly

• You dont have to be some sort of natural talent
  to work as a programmer almost everything can be
  learned and the best way is to program . So write
  code regularly , Daily and you will become better
  automatically.

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Start a personal project

• Many people believe a real programmer does
  nothing but code and has at least 3 personal
  projects at a time. Thats of course , not true
  but a personal project can be a good thing to
  explore new technologies, try out new things ,
  build and sell a product or just to have some fun
  , try it.

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Find great tools

• A Craftsman is only as good as his tools . You
  dont need much to code your laptop and a basic
  text editor are sufficient but there are great
  tools out their that help you like IDEs , CLIs
  line interfaces , note keeping tools , pomodoro
  timers , image hosting and much more .

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Take some time off

• Coding is a fulfilling thing for me . If im in
  the flow hours are flying by like there is no
  tomorrow . Sometimes I code during work hours ,
  continue in my free time and do it even on
  weekends . But this can quickly ead to burnout or
  stress so its really healthy to take a few hours
  or days completely off of programming to recharge
  the batteries

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Read more Books

• The internet brought us many new opportunities to
  learn blogs , podcast video courses . But for
  me there is nothing better than a good , old ,
  paperback book. So if you want to try something
  old that worked for generations read a book