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5 Tips to becomming a better coder

A programmer friend of mine use to always tell me how his memorization of over 200 function in C++ helped him greatly. ” I never have too look up a function definitions , therefore I can code 50% faster then the average coder” he would tell me. So what happened? Intellisense for one, two when C# came out all his diligence in memorizing functions went to waste as he had to  learned a new language. Of course in coding some memorization is a necessity but you should spend more time learning the method of doing things, IE creating a db connection, consuming a RSS feed, etc. etc then memorizing how to do them. Learn the correct methods of doing thing, don’t memorize.

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