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10 THINGS YOU SHOULD BE DOING AS A PROGRAMMER

As a programmer, there are things you should get used to or carry out in your day to day life which makes you very productive, efficient and updated in your area of expertise. In this post, I am going to list and explain just 10 of them.


  1. Read and follow technology trends: Reading is to a programmer what training is to a soccer player. I do not know about you but  all the programmers I have ever come accross are good readers, they are always hungry for information and always at alart about the new technologies coming to the market. Windows 10 is coming and guess what, I have been preparing to develop apps that runs on it. I just have the strong believe that developing for it would buy me my first car, Hahaha!
  2. Be a writer: Some say programmers can't make good writers and just like one publisher said, I know many programmers who write good articles. Write about the problem you solve so that other people who face similar problems would easily solve it. The idea is creating a database of solutions to problems which is available for anybody around the world.
  3. Be creative and learn to visualize the problem you are trying to solve or your project idea by sketching it on a paper or something: I just do this all the time and it has become a habit. Is it a good habit? Let me be the judge of that.
  4. Be a problem solver: I woke up this morning and discovered that I woke up very late, reason being that the battery of my handheld was totally out so there was no alarm to wake me up and my PC was running all through. It should have been the one to wake me up since it was the one on duty, but it didn't because it had no alarm program. I was inspired, I needed alarm on my Window 7 System and there was no internet connection for me to download one. Wait.. I am a programmer, right? Why not make myself one, the thought came and under 3 hours, I made myself a custom alarm that  calls me by name and tells me it's time to wake up followed by one annoying audio sound that is even capable of waking a dead man (You know what I mean). That was a problem solved, the accounting software I used in managing my personal accounting activities was developed by me because I couldn't afford an expensive accounting software, another problem solved. SharpAccounting can be downloaded from here, its free and open source.
  5. Be part of an open source project and always contrubute to it: There many open source projects on the internet today, stick yourself to one of them.
  6. Become an active member of stack overflow and visit regularly to help solve programming problems.
  7. Become a freelancer to know what the market is saying.
  8. Get known for what you do: Connect with professionals on LinkedIn and let them know you for what you do.
  9. Know a little about many things that are not in your field: There is a saying  which says " If you do not understand the problem, you can't solve the problem" I believe as a programmer, you should study and read about everything that is worth developing a software solution for. You are not a businessman does not mean you shouldn't develop a business software. A million dollar software idea comes from the things you read.
  10. Build a library of codes: "Never you solve one problem twice" Says the experts. Build a code library and compile it into a DLL, add all the complex codes you ever wrote to this library and keep on doing so and ensuring the library always work by testing it regularly.


Yes friends, this is the list of things I can't do without even as an amateur programmer. Please share one out of your list in the comment section.
Thanks for reading.

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