How to increase own knowledge every day and don't go crazy?

By -

Hi everyone. I was in the programming school and the members asked me a lot about how learn that all knowledge of programming? I had a little advice for them. A lot of people start by reading books and documentation. Sometimes they do tutorials. Yes, this is helpful, but it is only for beginners. If you want to learn more, if you want find something new, I have a solution for you, which is not tiresome. This way of learning is very motivating and interesting for me.

Local meetup

You can rise your knowledge during talk with the experts or aficionados. They like to share its knowledge. They like to talk about solutions, problems or projects. This knowledge a lot of time is unique and you won't get it anywhere else. Meetups are often loose (pizza, beer, talks). That is a good time to talk with more experienced people.

If you want to find some meetups in your town, you should start from the www.meetup.com site.

Comapny events

A lot of corporations organize the events, where their experts show a presentation about problems or solutions which they use for their job. This is a good time to meet the company. Sometimes on these events you can talk with HR, the recruiter and developers. It is very good, when you want to get a job in this company.

Conferences

If you want to get information about trends you should go to conference. A lot of people who interesting computer science want to share their solutions. The topics often are new every year. After conference I always have a time for reflection and compare my actual knowledge with new knowledge. I think that kind of events let you think about solutions, architectures or problems which you are.

YouTube, Pluralsight

When I have a little time at home, I watch the tutorials on YouTube or Pluralsight. This is always loose watch, but I always get something new from it. I do it instead watch the TV.

Book

During travelling I like to read the books. I prepare one or two books. I choose that method in travelling, because I want to resting from the computer. The book is a good alternative, but the previous ways to learn is faster and better.

Codingame, codewars, kata

The last way to learn is programming for fun, achievements and increase repeatable skills. I like codingame, because we can implement a bot and fight with other bot. This is very funny and motivating, because we get the achievements and better and better league. We resolve the real problems and we see a result for that. Codewars and kata are the way to increase our skills. It lets us do something a lot of time, so every implementation, we are better and better. Sometimes I prepare my tests, which I use to implement a functionality by different way.

Summary

I know a lot of ways to learn something new. I think we have a good position and we have more events than other profession. I prefer to use each of it, because all of them is very good for us.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why TDD is bad practice?

By -
Image
Did you listen that TDD is bad? What do you think about it? I have my opinion about it! TDD is bad because... We don't have time to write tests first - I think this is a good point. I sometimes don't have time for that. Why? Because I need to do quickly fix on our code and deploy it. In this case I don't have time to create test after wrote production code too. The even worse case is when we have tested this part of our code and test after change doesn't work. I don't like this, because I must read tests and thinking about repair tests for new logic. I really don't like this. I would like to create new test and remove old every time when I have that situation. What's wrong with the test first on this case? Nothing, because if you have time to write tests after create code, you have time to create test before it. Don't you think so? We know how will implement it, but we don't know how testing it - I think a lot of developers have this problem,
Read more >>

How correctly imitate dependencies?

By -
Image
This is continuous of my previous post about why we should imitate our dependencies. I did it not long ago. I though about how do it properly and when I can say that it is correct. Start from test and real dependencies I am starting from the tests. I wrote the simple tests which, I though, are correct. That was my learned about dependencies. I had the good situation that I had some prepared tests before. During the writing test I got a knowledge. A lot of time, I verified what the system return. After it, I got the full automated tests for my dependency. Now, I am sure that dependency works like I think. Like my test use it. I think this is a very good advantage. Extract the interface for communicating The implementation to communicate is implemented and tested. Our test, if you implement it like functionality test, not code test, should show us, how we want to use our dependency. We know what parameters we use, what methods. We know what we want. That is a place where we must extr
Read more >>

Software development using Angular 5 with Spring Boot

By -
Image
Hi everyone. My last the bigger post is about configuration Spring Boot and Angular 5 . After that instruction we have integrated both technology on one app. If you created it you know that development is very hard in this case. We must waiting for build a client and it isn't effective. We can use webpack-dev-server to speed up this process, so this post is just about it. Angular and webpack-dev-server I think I have to explain webpack and webpack-dev-server. The first tools let pack our angular app to one or more files. This files is bundles. It is for improve speed of our app. Why? Because one page application need all files on start by assumption. The better way is load it using only one connection and one file, because establishing connection taking time. This is a few information about webpack, but what is webpack-dev-server? This is the tool. It serve our that files which webpack compiled, but it working on memory, so we have quick result on our browser. This is a amazing
Read more >>