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4 Unusual Ways to Improve Your Programming Skills
Feeling stuck in your journey to becoming a better programmer? Try these tricks to unleash your creativity and get going
Napoleon Bonaparte famously said:
“For war we need three things — money, money and more money.”
It resembles what you need to learn to program — to code, code, and code some more. That’s the only viable way to get better.
You probably already know that, and maybe you’ve been coding for years. But I bet sometimes you get stuck. You may be involved in a long project with few challenges or still looking for a job and not knowing how to stand out from the crowd.
Whatever it is, it feels like you’re coding more and more and can’t progress. Every project is similar. You solve problems in the same way.
To escape this vicious circle, you need to think outside the box and challenge yourself. Here are some tricks to help you start growing again.
1. Rebuild an Existing Tool
Insufficient feedback is one of the greatest obstacles to learning how to code. When you start, it’s not such a big problem. You want your code to work. If it doesn’t…
