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Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Interview)

Oct 8, 2021

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The Repetition Is Not About the Code That You Write

02:23

The Pro of Iteration Is Necessary

05:28

Don't Use Other People's Code

04:37

Introduction

3min

Don't Repeat Your Mistakes

3min

I've Never Heard of This Before.

4min

The Pro of Iteration Is Necessary

5min

The Repetition Is Not About the Code That You Write

2min

Code Pen

4min

Is There a Best Practice for Commenting Code?

3min

Stack Overflow

2min

Do You Know How to Properly Call Fmpeg With These Flags?

3min

10.

Then You Can Read the Source Code of Your Dependencies

4min

11.

How to Find Greatness Luck

2min

12.

Don't Use Other People's Code

5min

13.

Open Source

3min

14.

How to Define Cyclomatic Complexity?

3min

15.

Sorce Graft - The Universal Code Serc A

2min

16.

The Best Code Is No Code, but Also No Bugs

2min

17.

I've Never Identified Closely With My Code

2min

18.

Is Version Control Helping You to Rewrite Your Code Better?

2min

19.

Doleat as Much Code as You Can, but No More

2min

20.

Over Organizing in Sass?

5min

21.

Is Iterator or Increment?

2min

22.

Is It a Short Inversion of Err, or Is Itu Shortened Version of the Word We?

2min

23.

Code Comment

4min

24.

How to Pay Attention Agnostically

5min

Today we’re talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post, Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. Matt was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career advice or other soft skills. These reflections are just about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours, which also correlates with the number of hours needed to master a skill.

If you count the reflections we cover on the show and be the first to comment on this episode, we’ll get in touch and send you a coupon code to use for a 100% free t-shirt in the merch store. Good luck…

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