Programming Workout - Baruco 2012

Our tools are becoming ever more efficient... Command line tools are becoming obsolete... Programmers today don't need to touch-type... Using the mouse to copy and paste is perfectly fine... You can always look up those design patterns on the web... Your IDE can do many things for you, so why do you even need to think?

Can you feel it? Can you feel that this is TRUE?

Then stop being UNPROFESSIONAL and think again!

In this talk, I'm going to convince you that learning seemingly obsolete skills can have huge impact on your productivity. I will show you how these skills and other seemingly unimportant factors can impact your career. I will help you find ways to improve these skills in order to become a better programmer. I will also show you tools that can facilitate this process.

In other words, I will show you how programmers WORK OUT.

Transcript

1. Programming
2. Programming is a complex skill
3. Guitar
4. Football
5. Martial arts
6. Martial arts
7. Talent
8. FALSE!
9. Practice
10. Practice ... a lot of it.
12. Programming Workout
13. How to stay on the path?
14. And choose optimal one?
15. Beginner
16. Beginner “I have no idea what I’m doing”
17. I have no idea what I’m doing
18. Learn consistency first
19. Become proficient with git. Learn more vim. Become a better touch typist. Improve OOP skills. Learn functional programming basics. Become a better mathematician. Make a wish
20. Pick simple exercise rubykoans.com rubyquiz.com D C Dr
21. Create a habit • Simplify the behavior • Start it after existing habit • Celebrate success • Don’t punish failure
22. Novice
23. Novice “I know what I can’t do”
24. Make goals SMART
25. Few SMART examples • Improve WPM by 3 next week. • Solve 10 Project Euler problems this week. • Do all Array ruby koans till Wednesday. • I’ll learn to implement and be able to prove complexity of QuickSort in a month.
26. Find a good teacher
27. Focus one skill
28. Keep working hard
29. Adept
30. Adept “I know what I can do”
31. Increase intensity
32. • add exercises • make them more complex • cycle workouts focused on different skills • experiment Increase intensity
33. Share your story
34. Master
35. Master “I can do”
36. Keep up the good work
37. Become a beginner
38. Try teaching others
39. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
40. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
41. Programming Workout
42. • programmingworkout.com • facebook.com/programmingworkout • twitter.com/ProgrammingWOD • twitter.com/mehowte • facebook.com/mehowte • applicake.com/team#michal