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The articles are just window-dressing for code snippets I want to keep.

Tagged “growth”

  1. The Ten Commandments of Writing Programming Tutorials

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    Writing programming tutorials has made me better appreciate the pitfalls of writing. It's also made me that much more aware of badly written tutorials. Whereas before I might have just called myself stupid for not understanding something, I can now clearly see what the writer did wrong and how the information could have been presented better. Anyway, I'm tired of reading badly written tutorials and hope to start better conversations about tutorials, so, without further ado and in no particular order: the Decalogue:

  2. The Second Best Way to Pick Your Next Programming Language

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    Experienced developers often say that the best way to pick your next language to learn is to pick a project you want to ship and pick the best language for the job. This isn't wrong, but beginning developers often respond that the only "project" they have in mind for now is to learn more about programming generally and become a better developer overall. If this is your goal (and it's a good one!), then the "best way" to pick your next programming language just isn't applicable. But I think you'll appreciate the second best way.

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