How to raise your level in the art of programming. Six step plan

Free translation of a list of fairly successful ways to improve your level as a programmer.

Learn the different programming paradigms:

• write a program in assembler
• write the program in a functional language
• write a program in an object-oriented language
• write the program in the prototype language
• write the program in a logical language
• write the program using the Actor Model
• write a program on Forth

Learn programming in various platforms:

• write a non-trivial web application
• write a non-trivial desktop application
• write a non-trivial mobile application
• write embedded application
• write real time system

Improve your understanding of software at various levels:

• write network client (HTTP, FTP)
• write device driver
• write B-tree database
• write a wrapper for an existing library for more convenient use
• write an application or framework that uses the plugin model
• write a framework for testing
• write programming language

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Improve yourself with koans, katami and the wisdom of the ages:

• go through five cat programming
• go through the koans of programming for the language you want to learn
• visit code retreat
• read the SICP and do all the exercises

Program open source software:

• enter the code share in the open source project
• make sure your patch is accepted
• earn commits rights in a large open source project
• publish open source project
• conduct Refactotum open source project

Learn by teaching others:

• conduct a blitz report
• participate in local user groups
• participate in conferences
• create a training course
• publish tutorial (tutorial)
• publish a constructive revision of the open source code of the project
• write a book on programming

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