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How to Become a Better Developer

Slides for the talk I gave at Kod.io on 2014-03-01. Find the resources at http://j.mp/better-kodio

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Transcript

  1. How to Become a Better developer

  2. TA L E N T V S . S K

    I L L
  3. None

  4. E X P E R T P E R F

    O R M A N C E
  5. None
  6. None

  7. E X P E R T P E R F

    O R M A N C E
  8. None

  9. the acquisition of expert performance

  10. None

  11. S E T U P

  12. Results

  13. experience

  14. Activities

  15. None
  16. None

  17. solo practice

  18. sleep & practice

  19. How?

  20. Deliberate practice

  21. Deliberate practice

  22. improvement

  23. New or hard

  24. find a mentor

  25. repetition

  26. repetition

  27. code katas

  28. Feedback

  29. find a mentor

  30. Be a mentor

  31. demanding

  32. the deliberate part

  33. hard

  34. frustration

  35. Failure

  36. avoid flow

  37. good goals

  38. setting goals

  39. the process

  40. REGENERATE

  41. None
  42. None
  43. None
  44. None

  45. recap

  46. your advantage

  47. 7. deliberate practice I N M E M O R

    I A M J I M W E I R I C H

  48. books, photo Credits,… ! j.mp/better-kodio