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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by sifoobar on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:10PM (#18742759)
I honestly don't even understand the title, write code?

How to become a better programmer makes some kind of sense, though the short answer is similar: write more code.

Which leaves no time to fill the ether with noise, so it's a double win.

How does this end up on the front page in the first place?

Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by Sharlin on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:45PM (#18744087)
Ehh. A lot of things in the skillset of a capable real-world programmer have little to do with actually writing code, which is the whole point of the book. As can be trivially gleaned by taking a cursory look at the table of contents. And answering the question "how to write better code" with "write more code" is about as helpful as advising a depressed person to just go out and have fun.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by Gonkero on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:36PM (#18742880)
Saying you'll be a better programmer if you just write code is like saying you'll be a better mathematician if you just write more math.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by natalyarostova on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:09PM (#18743676)
My math skills improved the most when I stopped obsessing over studying the right things, or finding the right textbooks, and just constantly solved problems.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by crooked-v on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:07PM (#18743936)
Being a mathematician and solving already-theoretically-understood math problems are two things that often don't have a lot of overlap.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by natalyarostova on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:28PM (#18744022)
Yeah fair.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by mixmastamyk on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:48PM (#18742934)
It’s another way to describe practice. Which is correct but not the most compelling of arguments.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by sifoobar on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:01PM (#18779808)
Do you have any examples of methods that will get you there more effectively than practice in any discipline? Because I honestly can't think of anything.
Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by unixhero on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:20PM (#18743428)
Boys; I've got this:

Because the chapters for instance under 2.0 are absolutely spot on.

Edit:

The rest are absolutely as well. Are what you say? Spot on!