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Prudence97
Prudence97

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Tips for New Programmers. 1. Read Documentation (Add yours)

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Yes! Read the Docs

It might looks pretty boring but you'll be saving yourself a lot of heartache.☺️

  • What's your Tip for a Coding Newbie?

  • What have you learnt that you've been doing wrong?

  • What would you change if you were starting afresh?

Please leave a comment.🤭🤭

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Tip Season
  1. Start creating your own personal blog/project right from the beginning of your career. This helps you learn a lot. You can use markdown (Cheatsheet here: tipseason.com/markdown-basics-chea... ) to create your own blog.
  2. Once you see some documentation try to automate a small task using that specific topic. Eg: If you are reading about timers, try to create your own alarm using the info.
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Prudence97

Writing a blog is a very underrated idea. I understand most people won't really want to do it.

🤷Some people don't really like writing. But it's helps you keep track of all you've learnt

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Tip Season

Ya it depends on interest😊 I have seen both kinds of people who likes it and who don’t like it. But the goal is to have a clean notes of that you learnt right from the beginning. If I were to start fresh keeping notes is some thing I would like to change for myself as we tend to forget lot of things .
Working on a product or an app is also other ways to keep track of coding

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Yongchang He

For most of the time, docs would be helpful!

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Light AI

Shameless plug, check out LightDocs if you want an easy way to generate and maintain documentation

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Prudence97

Will do 😂😂

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Prudence97

Yesss😂😂it was something I did understood later

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naveennamani

If you want to download offline documentation you can find instructions in my GitHub repo

GitHub logo naveennamani / offline-docs

A collection of scripts to build offline documentation for your favourite frameworks/libraries. Simply search, copy/paste the commands and enjoy.