50 Ways You can Improve as a Programmer

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Stack Overflow Landing Page

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Stack Overflow

Community-based Q&A part of the Stack Exchange platform.

Search for answers on Stack Overflow. If you have a programming question, you will likely find the answer on Stack Overflow. Be critical of the answers and use them as learning opportunities. When you are ready, answer some questions too.

#Knowledge Sharing #Communication #Questions And Answers 876 social mentions
Slack Landing Page

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Slack

A messaging app for teams who see through the Earth!

Embrace real-time communication. This is another tip that is not directly related to programming. Real-time communication tools provide immediate feedback and answers when working with others on programming tasks. Slack is a very popular real-time communication tool that offers persistent text, voice, and video chat. The tool allows you to create public and private channels for different topics. It lets you thread conversations for more organization.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Chat 208 social mentions
Robocode Landing Page

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Robocode

Robocode is a programming game where the goal is to code a robot battle tank to compete against...

Program a robot. What is more fun than seeing your programs come to life? Beginners and experts can program robots to complete tasks. The Sphero BOLT is a programmable plastic orb that features sensors, movement, and an LED display. LEGO MINDSTORMS is another programmable robot kit that has advanced capabilities. Some software robots are available in Minecraft Education edition, Java Robocode, and Python turtle graphics. Programming robots makes programming really fun, because they visualize your program output.

#Education #Online Learning #Kids Education 12 social mentions
PyLint Landing Page

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PyLint

Pylint is a Python source code analyzer which looks for programming errors.

Use code linters. Code linters provide immediate feedback for your programs. The online W3C Markup Validation Service checks web documents for validity. ESlint helps you find and fix problems in JavaScript code. Pylint is a linter for Python code. Linters are available as plugins for IDEs like Visual Studio Code. Linters force you to learn by flagging errors and suggesting changes.

#Code Coverage #Code Analysis #Code Review 11 social mentions
Project Euler Landing Page
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Project Euler

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Solve Project Euler problems. Project Euler has lots of mathematical and computer science problems to solve with code. The website lists how many people have solved each problem.

#Online Learning #Online Education #Online Courses 405 social mentions
Hashnode Landing Page

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Hashnode

A friendly and inclusive Q&A network for coders

Create a programming blog. To learn something, it helps to read it, hear it, and write it. Writing about your daily programming experiences in a blog will enhance your learning. It will also motivate you to learn more. Two popular blogging platforms are Dev Community and Hashnode. These free blogging platforms make it easy to start blogging right away.

#Web App #Social Media Tools #Software Engineering 120 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Learn from open source software projects. Open source software projects on sites like GitHub and GitLab offer excellent examples to learn from. Many of these software projects are popular in the industry. Contributing to these open source projects offers more programming practice.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2039 social mentions
ESLint Landing Page
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ESLint

The fully pluggable JavaScript code quality tool
Pricing:
- Open Source
Use code linters. Code linters provide immediate feedback for your programs. The online W3C Markup Validation Service checks web documents for validity. ESlint helps you find and fix problems in JavaScript code. Pylint is a linter for Python code. Linters are available as plugins for IDEs like Visual Studio Code. Linters force you to learn by flagging errors and suggesting changes.

#Code Coverage #Developer Tools #Code Quality 229 social mentions
DEV.to Landing Page

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DEV.to

Where software engineers connect, build their resumes, and grow.

Create a programming blog. To learn something, it helps to read it, hear it, and write it. Writing about your daily programming experiences in a blog will enhance your learning. It will also motivate you to learn more. Two popular blogging platforms are Dev Community and Hashnode. These free blogging platforms make it easy to start blogging right away.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 385 social mentions
The New Twitter Developers Landing Page

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The New Twitter Developers

An entirely new experience for docs and developer resources

Leverage public APIs. There are many public application programming interfaces (APIs) that you can connect your programs to. Twitter, YouTube, and Google Maps are just some APIs that you can develop against. You can create impressive software applications by leveraging these powerful APIs in your programs.

#Productivity #Image Marketplace #Developer Tools 23 social mentions
Google's Coding Competitions Landing Page

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Google's Coding Competitions

NOTE: Google's Coding Competitions has been discontinued.

Google's Coding Competitions (Code Jam, Hash Code, and Kick Start) enthrall, challenge, and test coders around the world. Try your hand at one, or all three.

Participate in Google coding competitions. Google coding competitions are great for practice, and you don’t have to compete officially. Code jam is an annual, worldwide coding competition. It lists past and present problems. Also see the Google kick start and hash code competitions.

#Coding #Coding Games #Contests 5 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
Use an IDE. An integrated development environment (IDE) is a programming tool that helps you create, edit, execute, and debug programs. IDEs find and highlight errors while you type in your programs. They suggest corrections. An IDE puts an interactive programming reference at your fingertips. Plugins add additional tools like linters and viewers. One of the most popular IDEs today is Visual Studio Code.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Code.org Landing Page

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Code.org

Code.org is a non-profit whose goal is to expose all students to computer programming.

Participate in coding challenges and events. Coding challenges and events are fun ways to practice programming. Twitter has #100DaysOfCode. Code.org has Hour of Code. The Advent of Code is a really fun programming challenge that happens during the first 25 days of December. There are many more online.

#Online Learning #Kids Education #Online Education 385 social mentions
BitBucket Landing Page

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BitBucket

Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for Mercurial and Git. Manage your development with a hosted wiki, issue tracker and source code.

Learn Git version control. Although this does not specifically relate to programming, you will undoubtedly use Git to maintain versions of your programs. Online Git repositories such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab are powerful tools for collaborating in software development. However, they are excellent for individual use too. For example, many developers use GitHub to host online coding portfolios. See the Git website for more information on Git version control.

#Git #Code Collaboration #Project Management 73 social mentions
GitLab Landing Page

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GitLab

Create, review and deploy code together with GitLab open source git repo management software | GitLab

Learn from open source software projects. Open source software projects on sites like GitHub and GitLab offer excellent examples to learn from. Many of these software projects are popular in the industry. Contributing to these open source projects offers more programming practice.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Repo Management 112 social mentions