Coding is a relatively hard, time consuming, dry, as well as detailed task. It requires a lot of careful understanding and deep concentration to implement as well. There are many different coders in this world but it is the approach and their styles of working or aspect view that keeps them involved, super active as well as efficient at coding.
You can follow some tips that can tremendously help you rise and get better at work. These 9 secrets to effective coding are given as below:
1. Stay Friendly
One should always keep code in such a way that it can be read generally by others too. This includes naming conventions, line breaks, indentations, method names and such.
2. Keep It Organized
Choose a language that fulfills the purpose fully, refrain from other motives, and comment the exceptions in true sense to stay organized and less cluttered.
3. Have A Plan
It is not good to start programming as soon as you know the objective. What should be done is that the procedure should be figured out first and then the general steps should be mentioned like scripts, menus, and frameworks that it needs along with troubleshooting.
4. Stay Manageable
The code should be managed in such a way that it requires as little manual changes as possible. This means the perfect storages should be used for what they have been specified for. For example, Array for multiple variables, loops for single methods and each thing for what it has been required for only.
5. Refrain from Overdoing
The main goal should be kept in mind at all times. There is no need for additions and extra efficiency so developing a plugin to show that you can, is totally foolish and can cost you complexity risks and correction risk as well.
6. Debug Smartly
Having smart debugging tools is definitely the way to go. These IDEs help a lot to investigate and learn through breakpoints, expression tracking, performance checks etc. They save time to get into code and find out from the whole.
7. Have A Strong Editor
A strong editor is the best support ever for a programmer. A good strong editor will provide lots of knowledge, completion, syntax learning with feature filtering templates etc. They can also help debugging, split editing, have database supports, layout customizer and such things which can help you get more easily and in less time.
8. Have Updating Capabilities
While there are many different versions evolving for things as software make sure that you do proper version controlling so that your work remains useful in all eras.
9. Prototyping Should Be Sufficient
Some programmers are addicted to prototyping as it helps in the long run but doing it for the sake of finishing and wrapping up the project isn’t effective. It should not be done more or less but just in the right way
Therefore, now that you know the nine most important secrets to being a better coder, then make sure you incorporate all the above specified things so that you can become better and reap all the benefits as well.
Vinay Gupta Producer, VinR Films is a third-generation entrepreneur, with rich and varied experience in a wide range of business domains. Vinay is a software engineer from Amity, NOIDA. and has completed his MBA from the IT division of Symbiosis International University. He is also the Founder Director of Dynamic Technosoft (Software Company) and a Director in Vinsam Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. (Investments & Wealth Management Company). In his professional career Vinay has diverse experience in the fields of information technology, software projects, infrastructure development, financial wealth management, film making etc.
