Hello everyone today we are going to talk about how to improve development skills and save your precious time while coding. These things are easy to remember and it will optimize your productivity.
1. IDE/Editor shortcuts:
The purpose of shortcuts is to optimize your time, allows you to work more quickly, precisely, and efficiently.
To save your precious time, you should be aware of the shortcuts you use regularly.
And if your IDE allows you to customize the shortcuts, don't vacillate, modify them according to your use.
Note: Read IDE's/Editor's documentation for better understanding of its shortcuts.
Doesn't matter which IDE or Editor you are using try to use their shortcuts regularly, like I use Visual Studio Code and I use a lots of shortcuts which saves my a lot of time, and if you want to know about top useful shortcuts of Visual Studio Code then you can visit here.
2. Google:
Google is the best friend of every developer. Always remember you are not first to encounter the problem, someone already stuck there and searched it or may be posted the solution regarding the problem.
You need patience and ability to find the relevant solution from best sources available across the internet.
You shouldn't just copy and paste any solution you come across you should use it to search relevant answers, and get the correct one.
There are some websites which helps a lot to find the appropriate solutions and you should know about them, like stackoverflow.com, geeksforgeeks.org, w3schools.com, etc.
3. Paraphrasing:
It means to express something again using different words so that it is easier to understand or you can say, restating other's words in your own language/words in order to avoid plagiarism.
But the main reason is why we use paraphrasing?
Paraphrasing is important because it demonstrates that you have a solid grasp of the material and can express it in your own words. It gives up deep idea of the subject matter and helps us in thinking more innovative ideas.
So the main question is where and how we can use paraphrasing?
It can help you in academic writing, like you saw a passage and want to use same meaning in your own words so here you can use paraphrasing by summarizing the passage in your own words.
Many people write blogs or write documentation and there they need a lots of information regarding the topic so here he/she can use paraphrasing tools to change the wording without disturbing its meaning.
There are lots of tools over there which are really helpful and sometimes I also use them for my work, some of them are quillbot.com, paraphraser.io, grammarly.com, etc.
4. Writing short code:
Always remember in order to achieve something big, always take small and precise decisions. And we are programmers guys sometimes we are lazy and sometime we don't have enough time, so we have to be careful while writing code.
Lets dive into some factors before judging the lines of code.
1. Efficiency of code
If few lines of codes are achieving same result as a lots of line of code then it is better to shorten the code.
2. Resource wastage
In long lines of code we use a lots of resources like declaring of variables, using improper syntax, etc., it wastes systems memory and reduce the efficiency of code.
3. Maintainability
Small codes are easy to maintain and less confusing, it helps us from preventing bugs and maintenance of code become very easy. And if small line of code is giving same results then why to waste out time on writing long lines of code.
5. Breaks:
It is a universal truth that taking breaks increases productivity.
Developers sometimes lives lazy and boring life, there are lots of time consuming tasks in our daily life, which makes us to lean towards caffeine and things. Which affects us both mentally and physically.
Always remember you are earning for yourself, so don't stake your life while earning money, your health is more important than your work.
During your work you should take both long and short breaks, both have their own importance. Lets discuss about them.
We have to take short breaks on daily basis, like you can go on a trip with friends or family for a day or a week, which refreshes you and helps in thinking more ideas.
When we take long breaks like you are not doing better in your professional life, you are not achieving the thing you want, then you can go for long breaks to avoid negative thinking and you can work in your personal level.
So it basically boosts our memory and reduces work stress.
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