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5 Ways to Become a Better Developer

Madhu Saini on April 02, 2024

Introduction Being a developer is more than just writing lines of code. It's about continuously improving your skills, staying updated w...
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Stephen Firecrow Silvernight

Good article, I remember when I had velocity issues early on in my career, I began writing a quick program as fast as I could in the evenings to practice. It was amazing how much it helped, I've learned a lot in my spare time from things that were not directly asked of me at work, practice is great advice!

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Madhu Saini

Thank you so much, Stephen🌻

I'm glad that you liked it :)

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Michael Tharrington

Solid advice! ✊

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Madhu Saini

Glad you liked it, Thanks Michael!!

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Gabriel Fanto Stundner

For me after a few years coding the most hard part as a developer is to continue fixing dependencies, updating language versions and refactoring old code, in the beggining is only tô understand logic and problem solving but later came the large amount of dependencies issues.

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Madhu Saini

Ohh yeah, I think everyone feels that :D

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SeongKuk Han

Great article, I agree with all the five things you mentioned. Thanks for reminding me that again. 👍

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Madhu Saini

my pleasure, Thanks :)

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Yusuf Abdulqudus

Thank you so much

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Madhu Saini

Glad you liked it :)

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Jitendra Choudhary

Nice advice, Madhu!!

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Madhu Saini

Thanks, Jitendra :)

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Alex Gonzalez

Totally agree! In my opinion developers sometimes feel lost in their ways, they feel like are impostor programmers, but if they follow this five points will relocate into their ways.

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Madhu Saini

exactly, sometimes it's okay to feel those stuff but we should never ignore these points and should keep learning and checking on ourselves!