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[English (Auto-generated)] How to Get Ahead of 99% of Programmers (in 99 Seconds) [DownSub.com]

To excel beyond the average programmer, one must engage in activities that most do not, such as learning effective debugging techniques, focusing on quality projects, and reading code written by experienced programmers. Contributing to open source projects and networking at conferences can also provide valuable learning opportunities. Ultimately, developing a programmer's mindset is crucial for success in the field.

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[English (Auto-generated)] How to Get Ahead of 99% of Programmers (in 99 Seconds) [DownSub.com]

To excel beyond the average programmer, one must engage in activities that most do not, such as learning effective debugging techniques, focusing on quality projects, and reading code written by experienced programmers. Contributing to open source projects and networking at conferences can also provide valuable learning opportunities. Ultimately, developing a programmer's mindset is crucial for success in the field.

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so you want to become better than 99

percent of programmers but you're doing


the exact same things that 99 of other
programmers are already doing watching
video tutorials doing online courses and
solving lead code problems everybody is
doing that doing what everyone else is
doing is the very definition of how to
become average and there is nothing
wrong with that but if you want to get
ahead of others you have to be willing
to do what others are not willing to do
here are 5 such things you can do right
now
most people think that programmers code
all day in reality programmers spend a
lot of their time debugging code
breaking things and fixing them is an
essential part of becoming a skilled
programmer yet beginners don't spend any
time trying to learn the right way to
debug code to get started with learning
debugging you can do this course called
software debugging on Udacity
when I was a beginner I would watch the
longest possible programming tutorial
learn as many languages as I could and
build as many projects as possible in
other words I thought that quantity is
all that matters but in programming
quality matters much more than quantity
one great project on your resume can
easily give you an edge over someone who
has 10 basic projects on their resume
foreign let me ask you a question during
my last two years of working at Google
let's assume that I've written a total
of 10 000 lines of code how many total
lines of code do you think I have read
during the same period it would easily
be hundred thousand lines of code even
though the numbers here are made up what
I'm trying to say is that I would have
roughly read 10 times more code than I
have written yet new programmers spend
no time reading code written by
experienced programmers go to GitHub and
spend 30 minutes trying to understand
someone else's code every day
the biggest disadvantage that the
beginners face is that often they don't
get the opportunity to collaborate with
the experienced programmers as a result
they never learn what it's like to work
with other Engineers on the team to
solve this problem you can start
contributing to open source projects I
will link a guide in the description to
help you get started
to become a top one person programmer
you need to first know what a top one
person programmer looks like but where
can you even find a top one person
programmer at conferences and meetups to
find meetups happening near you you can
use a website like meetup.com
before you can do any of this you need
to first know how to think like a
programmer watch this video for that my
name is sahil and I'll see you in the
next one

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