Curious to hear about the things that helped improve your programming ability.

  • Billegh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    23 years in and I don’t think that there is better advice here. Listen. Practice. Experiment.

    If it’s something you want to get good at, do it as a hobby. Pick projects that you don’t know entirely how to do. Adversity is a better teacher than anything else I’ve run into.

    Learn other languages too. I learned more about C from a year of rust than two decades of C.

    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
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      The only caution I’d add about doing it as a hobby too is that it’s super easy to burn yourself out. I think that’s why so many of us get into woodworking and gardening lol