Programming
Guide
Bingo here the code warrior comes...so you are a programmer? Nice
to know that. All that I can offer you is a lot of links and a bit
of advice(personal it is), which may or may not click with you.
If you are a beginner then my assumption is that you are attempting
to learn a procedural language like C, Pascal etc..First of all,
learn to put on comments and proper documentation. A few good tips
are :
1. Give proper documentation and comments explaining which variable
is meant for what part of the problem involved. If you have to submit
program codes like I have to then I wonder how would your instructor
know the crux of your code easily. Moreover, if you happen to just
need an old program code then I could get really difficult at times
to catch the meaning of lines between code.
2. If you are a beginner to computer programming and feel it to
be a new world then I would suggest you to cool down, for a computer
never does anything more or less that what you said it to, so its
always your mistake. Dont worry, programming follows the age old
datum of 'Practice makes a man perfect', practice and it would be
fine soon. I have seen loads of friends improving upon programming
by trying it again and again.
3. Know your compiler or interpreter. I have been through the bad
case of code running on one version of a C compiler while reporting
errors on others, so know your version well. Try to buy the one
having complaince to the latest ANSI standard. A good idea would
be to have a number of them and test them up.
4. Love thy Bugs as you love thyself. For me 'Life is a bug and
Ihave to just debug it', that's right. I must confess that I learnt
more programming by debugging programs than by coding perfect peices
of them. The maximum number of errors are syntactical than being
logical, more debugging makes one syntactically perfect.
5. Don't copy, for Christ's sake please don't copy code and understand
it by reading it. You would never be able to learn from it. You
would lose the opportunity of screwing those bugs. Copying never
helps...believe me.
6. Find a good book. Now the question is how do we define a good
book? A good book is the one which the user would like to read.
My recommendations on a good book may not be valid for you. So go
ahead waste sometime in your library and get the book which clicks
with you.
7. Advance yourself. Okay this may seem trivial but then please
improve the level of problems you solve, there is no point in celebrating
yourself being a great entry level programmer, move up to the next
level.
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