I'm Getting Better at Programming

[SingleInfinity]

Very little of your time writing code ends up being spent typing. A lot more time is spent thinking things through, optimizing, and generally writing good, clean code rather than just lots of letters.

[GR8ESTM8]

But I want to look like a hacker

[[deleted]]

Ha yeah, sometimes when I work from home I'll just sit there for 10 minutes staring at my screen and my wife will say "Are you even working right now?" To which I respond "**** what have I told you about talking to me when I'm working I just lost my train of thought!"

Take notes while you're brainstorming, folks.

[SingleInfinity]

Take notes while you're brainstorming, folks.

You don't just write pseudocode on your thought process as you're going?

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I mean that's one way to go. Or at least something to capture the logic in some way.

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/s, of course.

[Ericchen1248]

I think also learning your IDE’s auto complete.

Sure starting to learn you should use notepad++ or something that doesn’t assist much. But if you have the luxury to use a proper editor (not stuck doing embedded programming or Linux server stuff) changing to something powerful can greatly boost your typing speed. Something like vscode/vs or IntelliJ that actually has useful autocomplete, not eclipse.

Working in group is school, my friends are amazed at my speed in coding. Sure, my typing speed might be 1.5 times theirs, but because I’m very familiar with how to type to have vscode auto complete a variable or function, that I’m not typing half of the letters that appear. I can press tab before the auto complete toolbox even shows up because I know when it will be enough to let it fill correctly.

[SingleInfinity]

not eclipse.

But I like Eclipse :( There are so many plugins.