How to improve programming technology

As a professional coders, we hope that our programming technology can be well established and have a wide range of tools and technologies, whether for your current job or looking for a new job, is a valuable skill. Increase the income of code farmers by improving their own programming technologies. Are you worried that the encoding is not good enough? Have you seen other code farmers work in personal or open-source projects, participate in programming marathon, and spend all their spare time writing software? You may think that writing software only nine to five times during your work time will never be very good. You may think that only those who even eat, sleep, and breathe can stand out. But in fact, a 40-hour week can still make you a valuable and skilled coders.

Working in personal or open-source software projects won't naturally make you a better code farmer. Programming marathon may even have a negative impact if they make you feel that building software has a deadline and fatigue is a reasonable way to produce anything valuable. There are many inherent limits in your productive working hours. If you don't like to spend more time coding after you go home, don't be too tired, and don't take things for nothing.

Spending time on amateur projects is indeed of some value, but the most useful result is not only practice, but also more knowledge. Building software projects often uses older technologies and processes that have existed for a while. What valuable knowledge you get from other software projects at work and communication with developers outside of work is:

1. More extensive technologies and tools.
2. New technologies and processes. Maybe your company hasn't done much test, but you can learn about test-driven development elsewhere.

Having extensive tools and technologies is a valuable skill for your current job or looking for a new job.However, the actual encoding is not an effective method to obtain this knowledge. Because you don't actually need to use new tools and technologies, and in any case you will never have time to learn all the tools and technologies in detail. You can only get the most valuable content by understanding what tools and technologies are currently popular, what these tools and technologies can do, and under what circumstances they can play their best role. If you find a new tool that can be immediately applied to your work, you can learn it at work. if it cannot be applied to your work, you can only use it after classification in the brain.

Learning new tools can also help you find new jobs, even if you have never used them. I was asked about the differences between NoSQL and traditional databases in an interview. Honestly, I have never used MongoDB or any other NoSQL database at that time, but since I have known it, I know how to answer it perfectly. The ability to answer this question makes the interviewer confident that I can use the tool as necessary, even if I have never used it before.

Compared with coding in your spare time, you can achieve the same benefits and be more efficient by directly focusing on acquiring new tools and technical knowledge.Moreover, because this knowledge will benefit your employer, you do not need to spend a significant amount of time on it to obtain this knowledge within the working hours. You don't think there is really free time every day, but you will spend some time doing nothing on the Internet. Maybe you are surfing the Internet now! You can use this time to expand your knowledge.

You should schedule an hour every week to learn new tools and technologies.Choosing a specific time can help you develop a habit. Personally, I will choose Friday afternoon, because I have nothing to do during this period. Do not skip this learning period because of the approaching Project term or fatigue. You will do better within the deadline, and you will not be so tired, if you know the right tools and technologies to efficiently solve problems encountered at work.