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Programming Tips: Five Tools to Professional Coding

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When shifting from coding as a hobby to full-fledged professional developing, here’s a set of tools one comes to appreciate. Discipline: Focusing on the task at hand and delivering it in a timely fashion and at an optimal state, becomes a major advantage one seeks in a professional coder, as opposed to a hobbyist who may write ingenious code but in an unreliable fashion. Priorities: Picking up one

Programming Tips: 4 Steps to Better Code

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Here are four tips that will help your code automatically get better. a. Use Small Methods: This tends to be the most difficult part in coding, but it’s arguably the most important as well. Keeping your methods small, helps maintain tidier code, with more descriptive method names and fewer side effects. Your code will be easier to run through and that will help you maintain a wider view of your

Language Use List: Groovy Enters Top-20; C Still on Top

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Dramatic jumps over the past year have seen the Groovy language break into the top-20 list of programming languages, reaching the 18th spot, according to this month’s Tiobe index of programming language popularity. A dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine, Groovy has managed to jump over 35 spots since last year, when it was ranked at the 53rd position. Though its use percentage is at a

How to Use OOP (Object Oriented Programming) In Java

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Introduction: Welcome to my tutorial on how to use OOP (Object Oriented Programming), I am using Java to do this however, the principle applies for OOP in general. Steps of Creation: Step 1: First I have created a simple project in Java IDE called Eclipse. I have two classes, one called Main to host the form/frame/window of the application and handle the output, and a Game class which is going to

So You Want To Become A Programmer? Read This…

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If you really want to become a programmer, you have to read lot of books, tutorials, or any materials that you think will work for you. Even this article… But…the majority of us hate reading. Even me, I’d rather read other materials than to read programming books, tutorials or the like. The odd part is you need to read and continue reading like what you are doing now, even it annoys you. Way back

Top 10 Controversial Programming Opinions from Stackoverflow

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Stack Overflow, one of the best programming Q & A website have listed some of the world's most controversial programming opinions they ever received since the first day when the question was posted on the site last 2009. Although the questions was only available among select users but it garnered some of the most awesome and sometimes awkward answer. The answers of the questions about the

How to Leverage from Other Programmer and Earn More Money

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The truth about being a programmer is that you are just a worker. The one who earns more after your hard work is your boss, right? Don’t get me wrong, I believe you’d like to earn a decent income in order to sustain the life that you are longing for. Having a great job isn’t the answer to your financial problem. Yes, you are a programmer and you belong to what we called – one of the highest paying

How to Learn Programming the Fastest Way

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This article will help you learn programming the fastest way. This is not meant to teach you programming within 24 hours or within 30 days. But this article will give you an idea on how and where to start. If you are an advanced programmer, you do not need to read this article. If, however, you want to become a programmer and want to learn it the fastest way, then read on. After receiving a lot of