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How Do You Teach Yourself After Reading Books for Beginners?

Tsuyoshi Chujo on January 25, 2018

When thinking about the situation that you are willing to work with a programming language which is new to you, what will you do to teach yourself?...
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Burdette Lamar

Another strategy: read code.

Almost none of us do enough just plain reading.

Excellent choices are O'Reilly cookbooks for your favoring languages. You see good code, and you learn new techniques.

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Tsuyoshi Chujo

I agree with that. Reading code of OSS is also useful I think.

I believe that making a cycle of "Reaing nice code" -> "Writing code" -> "Code Reviewing" -> "Reaing nice code" -> ... would accelerate the growth of engineer.

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Bruno Louzada

Amazing idea!