Your Coding Teacher

Being lazy is costing you so much money

Never program and drink beer at the same time.

I went from zero professional coding experience to software developer at Amazon in 1.5 years by - Learning C++ - Learning Data Structures - Learning Algorithms - Practicing daily The secret: focusing on the fundamentals and being consistent

To write good software, step away from your computer.

At 25 I cringed when I looked at the code I wrote at 23 At 27 I cringed when I looked at the code I wrote at 25 At 29 I cringed when I looked at the code I wrote at 27 Growth

"Use Your Brain" This is the only best practice you should be using all the time.

Code that works the first attemp will get you higher than the best drugs

They don't hire a person that can write code. They hire a person that can solve their problems.

Most people think programming is too hard Actually they are missing good habits Figure out how to solve a small problem every day Stick with it for a while and see the magic happen

Programmers who don't code in their spare time for fun will never become as good as those who do.

Getting too attached to the way you code means you are going to miss better ways of doing things

How to learn programming in 3 steps - Find something that interests you - Start learning it - Don't quit when things get hard

Q: How do you tell an introverted programmer from an extroverted one? A: The extroverted programmer looks at your shoes when he talks to you

The worst programmers are language-agnostic.

Don't wait for the perfect conditions to start learning programming Because that day will never come.

"Religious wars" in programming: - Vim vs Emacs vs IDE - Python vs Java vs Go vs ... - Tabs vs Spaces - HTML is a programming language ... - ... See them for what they are: tools to solve tasks. Don't waste your time in this sort of "debates". And use Vim.

"Coding is the new literacy." — Naval Ravikant

One of the worst habits when you are learning to code is not to code because "you're not feeling it" Go and write something short, quick or easy. It doesn't matter. What is important is to keep the good habits.

Unpopular opinion: Good programmers hate to code.

The "paradox of clean code": The easier it is to read it, the harder it is to write it