4 Most Important Things to be a Successful Programmer

Hello !!!! What’s up ?? Want to learn programming ? Do you think programming is how it is shown in movies ? Do you think Programming is just a piece of cake ?

Pardon me please, for asking you those weird questions but let me tell you programming is not just about tons of key presses on a keyboard just like shown in the movies. It could be intimidating. Infact , it was intimidating for me at first but later it became more happening and enjoyable for me. Programming gives you a power to develop stuff in reality (that stuff could be a Web app, a desktop software or a Mobile app etc.) that is just an imagination of a programmer’s head. Oh Yes!! 😉 programming can make things really easy and purposeful, it is more about problem – solving.

But for being a Successful Programmer, there is a journey to be crossed. So, here I have a bunch of important things for you to work on. These are :

• Mental Preparation : The learners who begin with programming are quite zealous in start but later on there zeal and enthusiasm feds away. They stop putting their efforts and ultimately programming becomes quite difficult for them. Programming comes from positive attitude. 😀 A learner should have a positive attitude towards a problem, instead he/she should take it as a challenge and find an optimal solution to the problem.
• Pick a language and then stick to it : There are a lot of languages available, choose one and learn it through. For example, If you want to travel from Mumbai to Pune , it would be a better choice to travel by road or by air ; instead of flipping between bus, then flight, then again bus. This would make the journey more tedious and difficult. Similarly, switching between programming languages will make learning a tedious task. Also remember, programming is more about semantics and less about syntax.
• Never Ever Give Up : I am not gonna lie to you.. Learning Programming is hard. It is hard but if you take it as a challenge, if you don’t give up you will get through. There will be a point where you will think of : Programming is not for me ; May be this code is simple in other language, let’s switch the language ; I am not meant for programming. But trust me, if you are not giving up, then results will be a lot fruitful. Take it as a fun dare and conquer it as a challenge.
• Play, Play and Play 😛 : Programming is more like a game, play with it. Don’t focus only on the curriculum of a given course you take to learn programming. In spite of that, find new concepts, exercise your brain and come up with new solutions to a problem. You can also choose for competitive programming (on HackerRank, Hackerearth, CodeChef etc.) for playing and solving the questions. Use each new concept learned and play with it, experiment with it.

Programming is about making things in real. The secret of programming is to learn and explore as far as you can, it is about overcoming the hard part with exciting failures and then coming up with a solution to a given problem. It’s about carving your own niche.

So, Let’s talk in next blog post, till then happy programming !! Likewise, let me know was this useful to you ? propose me the subjects you need the blog entries on. Furthermore, like it, share it and comment on it. 😀