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7 Techniques To Sharpen Your Technical Skills as a Developer
The most important — go beyond reading and coding
As developers, we need to constantly keep up technically. Do we just read and do programming regularly? Well, yes… but there’s more to just doing that. There are some general skills that we can apply in any technical knowledge we would like to acquire.
Below are some that are specifically for software developers.
1. Skill In Knowing Where To Find the Answer
Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find. — Bible
In life, we learn best when facing problems only if we can find the answer to them. This applies to software development too.
Don’t we just love when we are stuck in a programming issue? Or when we encounter a bizarre bug in our software? Well, not quite. It’s actually more of a nail-biting and hair-pulling feeling. How nice if we have a magic wand that can get us the answer… Well, that’s the skill we have to develop.
It may sound easy, i.e., just ask someone. But… Who to ask? How to ask? When to ask? How do you know someone possibly knows the answer? Do you have a good…
