Question

4. Make a list of all software that you have learnt so far.
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Answer 1

• You learn something new everyday in this profession. Your learning continuously compounds over the time. Each phase of your career, job, project, boss, client, colleagues and life will further bring hard lessons befitting your aptitude, attitude, strength, weakness, knowledge and experience. However, one can resonate with following important lessons according to one’s overall experience:
• A working solution is always better than any comprehensive documentations.
• Always strive to improve your coding efficiency- learning better ways of implementing things in a time boxed manner. Always do some POC on your computer. Solve programming questions online. It may show your real talent in programming. You will garner immense respect from your colleagues, boss and clients with this quality!
• A programmer must master the art of debugging and unit testing his code, and enhance this skill to debug and unit test even others’ code.
• Develop mastery over using code editors of your choice, source control (tfs, git, mercurial, etc.), debugging tools, best coding practices, basics of operating system and networking, and data model and functional requirements of your current project.