Comments on: Three Steps To Becoming a Better Programmer

By: venlee

venlee — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:14:26 +0000

Nice Work M8

By: Effectize

Effectize — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:59:06 +0000

89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Programmer in the World…

Since there are dozens of posts on becoming a better developer, but no single post with all the advice you need, perhaps, you’ll find this short guide useful.
1. Learn the Skills You Need

Learn the programming basics

“The goal of this guide is to b…

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:22:11 +0000

Awesome read, just fell in love with your blog keep it up! :)

By: Little by little « Dryland’s Note

Little by little « Dryland’s Note — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:29:41 +0000

[...] though I know full well the solution. Specifically, I realize that I’m only doing the #2 of these Three Steps and ignoring the other two almost completely. This is not good, and I plan to start making changes [...]

By: Chintan

Chintan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:15:56 +0000

I am trying to improve .. thanks :)

By: musafironmove

musafironmove — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:21:25 +0000

fascinating… :)

By: NR

NR — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:06:26 +0000

Excellent and interesting one.:)

By: looptheloop

looptheloop — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:09:48 +0000

I never consider myself a programmer. It’s something I enjoy doing, be it C, VB, VBA, or Assembler.

I’ve also coded some very handy spreadsheets as well. Coded? Yes you can do a lot with Excel if you know how to make use of VBA and a few API declarations.

But programming isn’t about knowing all the syntax. That comes from your documentation or wherever you can find it. Not everyone gets to go to school for this stuff.

The real focus is imagination and problem solving.

By: lowerpericles

lowerpericles — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:37:31 +0000

“… challenge and pleasure of creating something. Of watching it grow and flourish. Of seeing it do what it was destined to.”

“… who makes the best trade off, the best compromise between two orthogonal qualities.”

“The second system originates from a deep, basic need of humans — to make things better. To correct mistakes. To live life one more time, without making the same mistakes again. The Undo button. Do it till you get it right. Citius, Altius, Fortius.”

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:45:22 +0000

Jericho: I’ve come across a couple of those myself. One guy actually turned out to be someone who created spreadsheets for people. He ‘programmed’ them…

So now I say I’m a developer. I write software that people then program :)