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5 Ingredients of a Successful Technical Article
Programmers write many technical articles. Here’s how to make them a success for the reader and writer
Programmers usually write articles about experiments, their experience, technology, frameworks, and computer science. Some programmers write tutorials about the latest frameworks and tools. Meanwhile, some programmers love to write about computer science and complex concepts. All these programming-related articles are known as technical articles because the content of those articles delivers technical knowledge to a developer audience.
Every programmer tries to get more reads and views for their content with various strategies. However, every technical article won’t be popular and won’t reach thousands or millions of developers. Resharing has a massive effect on a particular technical article’s view count because it can increase the view count exponentially. Undoubtedly, high-quality content is the key to success behind every successful technical article. If we create high-quality content, everyone tends to reshare our articles.
I started writing technical articles about two years ago, and my total content view count is now close to one million on Medium. I tried different strategies to increase the views of my content by improving the quality. Finally I found the following strategies to be the highly effective, important ones.
The article is a journey, so make a better flow
Every piece of written content has three major sections: introduction, body, and conclusion. Likewise, programmers also need to have these three sections in their technical articles for better connectivity and flow. The great way to handle these sections better is to think of the article as a journey. First, in the introduction section, you can start the topic with its domain. In other words, you can start with a general explanation rather than being too specific. For example, if you are writing about Flutter desktop application development, a few words about desktop application development will get the reader on the right track.
As another example, I started this article with some details about technical content. It is always great to give a hint…
