[OT] How to improve my programming skills?

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 01:26 am, Mirko wrote:

> TLDR: Sorry for OT. Long-time Linux geek and hobby programmer wants
> to improve his coding skills. What's most important: project
> planing, algorithms and data structures, contributing to FOSS, web
> development, learning other languages or something else?

Programming.

If you want to improve your programming skills, you must *write code* and then
*run that code* and if it breaks you must *fix that code*.

I cannot tell you how many hours I have wasted writing code that I've never
actually run. Its a trap.



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Steve
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enough, things got worse.