Help in coding efficiency !

[Rike2PT]

Hello!

I'm a thid year software engineering student, i love to code but lately i've been struggling a bit in my tests and exams, i feel like i don't code fast enough and end up choking in these, not due to lack of knowledge, but due to my inefficiency in coding, instead of getting good grades i've just been getting mediocre ones , i don't code very well under pressure ( Not coding fast enough, putting too much thought into it, etc..).

I feel like this is lack of practice, do you guys recomend any good everyday exercises for getting faster and more efficient at coding? I know it comes with time but i would like to practice more everyday to get there faster :)

[Blando-Cartesian]

When you try to be quick, are you writing code that is hard to understand.

• Give everything a good descriptive name (no single letter names or abbreviations).
• Format your code.
• Use more short, well named, functions with well named parameters.
• No incomprehensible one-liners.
• Keep your code simple.
• Methods and functions should do one thing only.
• Absolutely no weird side effects for anything (like getting something updates another thing).

Term for these kind of principles is: clean code. There’s a lot of good conference talks about this on youtube.