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Justin
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Water Cooler Talk: How do you Practice Coding ?

With the start of the new year lots of Devs have goals of sharpen up a their coding skills.

My question to you is how do you practice coding ? I'd like this to be a place to share our best practices and help kick off 2021 with new perspectives to improve ourselves :D

Leave a comment below on ways you've figured out to practice coding ! :D

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Cameron Thompson

By doing! A great way to practice is to build something!

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Grant Ralls

Now that I'm coming up on the end of my computer science degree, implementing ideas explored throughout my time in college.

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Justin

Ah! So like side projects ?

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Grant Ralls

I hesitate to call it a side project since it's typically difficult to do an actual demo. It's purely there for my programming and comprehension practice. Most recently I started implementing data structures using generics in typescript. I wrote them as packages so maybe they will get used in a project of mine in the future!

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Justin

Wow, that's a good idea !! I'll see if I can recreate some parts of jquery :)

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Della Garry

Love this topic! Practicing coding regularly has been a game-changer for me. I usually set weekly mini-projects and try to solve a few algorithm problems daily. Also, pairing up with friends for code reviews helps me spot mistakes and improve faster.
And since this is literally a "Water Cooler Talk" — having a proper ψυκτεσ νερου in the workspace doesn’t hurt either! Staying hydrated keeps the brain sharp while debugging endless loops.
Looking forward to hearing more habits from you all!

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Matt Eddy

Watching videos, reading books, and most importantly writing code that is used frequently within development.

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Justin

Some times I feel like in tutorial hell, lol.

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Cameron Thompson

If you are new, rewriting built in methods can be great too.

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Justin

I do need to get familiar with array methods great idea !

 
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Justin

Ah ! This is the way.