http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html
I will be just putting links as writing anything else would be insufficient in regard to the huge work of Robert L. Read .
Links will take you away from my site, but it is for good!
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Beginner
- Personal Skills
- Learn to Debug
- How to Debug by Splitting the Problem Space
- How to Remove an Error
- How to Debug Using a Log
- How to Understand Performance Problems
- How to Fix Performance Problems
- How to Optimize Loops
- How to Deal with I/O Expense
- How to Manage Memory
- How to Deal with Intermittent Bugs
- How to Learn Design Skills
- How to Conduct Experiments
- Team Skills
- Why Estimation is Important
- How to Estimate Programming Time
- How to Find Out Information
- How to Utilize People as Information Sources
- How to Document Wisely
- How to Work with Poor Code
- How to Use Source Code Control
- How to Unit Test
- Take Breaks when Stumped
- How to Recognize When to Go Home
- How to Deal with Difficult People
- 3. Intermediate
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These links are really good,
ReplyDelete'How to recognise when to go home' I can relate to lol, when writing a program any issue or problem I face is always on my mind no matter what. I find it hard to let it go for a break. :P
Yea, agree.
ReplyDeleteSometimes one is so tempted that even do not want to go to restroom!!!
Closely there...
nearly there...
:)
Well believe it or not my major subjects are Hindi, Home science, History, Political science. And I am doing work in IT Company (I don’t want to write office name but its have big name in Nepali IT field). Actually I am a graphic designer and also one of the good Nepali typist (Unicode Based) in my office so they give me project as a assistance to Soft wear developer and I am doing work as a logo maker, editor in this project yeah also data maintenance .
ReplyDeletehey man what a great list.
ReplyDeletethis term I am taking microcomputer interfacing course and doing programming using visual basic. I never took any computer courses/training before. you imagine what is the situation. totally a different language.
these links will help me a lot i guess coz i haven't gone through them
No brother I am not 1986 I am little older then this I m 1984. क्या करे मेरे चेहरे से मेरी उम्र का पता नही चलता। (only part of joke).
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