Do you want to become a better programmer? There are many tips that can help you with it. This article will give you four tips that will help you improve your programming skills. Whether you are a beginner, advanced or senior programmer these tips will help you become a better programmer.

16 Tips to Become a Better Programmer Part 1.

16 Tips to Become a Better Programmer Part 2.

16 Tips to Become a Better Programmer Part 4.

Learn design patterns

One topic that can have significant impact on your skills, and help you become a better programmer, are design patterns. Why? Think about it. At the core, the majority of programming problems you may encounter belong to one of few general categories. These programming problems have been solved over and over again like thousands of times.

As we all know, the natural tendency of programmers is to make everything more efficient. Programmers don’t like to waste their time. Make it faster, simpler or replace it with something better. Thanks to this mindset these programming problems have been documented and based on that documentation was created a number of design patterns.

Design patterns help solve problems faster and more elegantly

As I mentioned, design patterns can have significant impact on your programming skills. This is not an overstatement. Imagine you want to dig hole in the wall. You can choose either hammer and chisel or an electric drill. Which option will help you get the job done faster, and also with less mess? Design patterns are variants of the electric drill.

Imagine you encounter a problem. You could spend countless hours trying to solve some problem. Then, when you finally find the solution, you could spend a few more hours debugging, refactoring and polishing your solution. Why? What you can do instead is use some well-tested and proven solution and implement it right away.

This, using a specific design patterns, can help you solve the problem faster and more elegantly. This can help you save a lot of your time. You then can spend this time on more important things.

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