Comment by Marco Alka on "When and how do you practise your developer skills?"

CommentWhen and how do you practise your developer skills?

Marco Alka

Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor

Nov 7, 2016

I split my day. At work I mostly do web stuff (some C# and PowerShell, too), but when I get back home, I can work on my game project, which uses Rust. Since I use different languages for entirely different projects (one can harldy compare building a website to building a 3D game in a system language), it is actually kinda refreshing to sit down and program.

Unfortunately, That's not what happens all the time, since I also have a "real life" which, especially in the last few weeks, keeps me away from the computer when I get home...

I don't really recommend reading code on GitHub. On the one hand, you really don't know the skills of the person who wrote the code and on the other hand: isn't it boring? Take up a good novel instead :) Programming is something you need to practice in order to become better at it (as is the same with most other skills).

Edouard

Web Developer

Nov 7, 2016

Thanks for your answer @maruru. I don't say that I read code every evening but, the main goal behind that is to train to recognise some design pattern, enhance my anlytical skills and learn other ways to solve a problem. So yeah it might sound boring but the few times when I found a chunk of code that could re-whrite better, I find it very rewarding. For "split the day" part, you may have right to develop on completely different subjects. I should try your way ^^. How much time do you spend coding at home ?

@Edouard Well, it depends. I sometimes come home, grab a sandwich and work on code for some six hours. But most of the days, it's more like two to three hours, since I cook, clean my apartment and sometimes friends come over or invite me for a drink.

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