Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

Steps

1. Select a particular experience to pursue.
2. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achievement unlocked!)
3. Reflect on that experience. Really soak it in. Maybe a blog post would be in order?
4. Return to Step 1, this time selecting a new experience.

Conventions for this fork:

• done
• todo
• In Bold - currently doing
• [-] probably never

Note:- Check out this blog post series I have started to track all the achievements and capture the learning from each of them.

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Learn a variety of programming paradigms:

• Write a program in assembly language - Blog post
• Write a program in an imperative language
• Write an application in a functional language
• Write an application in an object-oriented language
• Write an application in a prototype-based language
• Write an application in a logic programming language
• Write an application using the Actor model
• Write an application in a concatenative language
• Write a data definition and data access layer for a complex domain
• Write an application in a strict design-by-contract language (e.g. Eiffel)

Learn a variety of not commonly-used programming languages:

• Write a non-trivial program in Brainfuck
• Write a program in Lua

Learn a variety of editors/IDEs/tools:

• Use vim exclusively for a month
• Use tmux extensively for a month

Experience the ins and outs of programming for different platforms:

• Write a nontrivial web app
• Write a nontrivial desktop app
• Write a nontrivial mobile app
• Write a nontrivial game (fifa, chess, mmog(cs, dota) etc.)
• Write an embedded app
• Write a realtime system

Enhance your understanding of the building blocks that we use as developers:

• Write a networking client (e.g., HTTP, FTP)
• Write a device driver
• Write a B-tree database
• Wrap an existing library to provide a better (more pleasant) user experience
• Write an application or framework that provides a plugin model
• Write a testing framework
• Write a programming language | Write a compiler for an existing language

Enlighten yourself with koans, katas, and the wisdom of ages:

• Complete five code katas
• Complete the programming koans for a language that you want to learn [clojure]
• Attend a code retreat
• Read SICP and complete all the exercises

Program in the open:

• Contribute to an open source project
• Have a patch accepted
• Earn commit rights on a significant open source project
• Publish an open source project
• Perform a Refactotum of an open source project

Learn by teaching others:

• Present a lightning talk
• Present at a local user group
• Present at a conference
• Deliver a training course
• Publish a tutorial
• Publish a constructive code review of an open source project
• Write a programming book

Learn by building things:

• Create and publish Alexa skill
• Create and publish an Android app.
• Create a collaborative platform (Based on Operational transform).

Check out below given blog post series I have started to track all the achievements and capture the learning from each of them.
http://saurabhgoyal.github.io/tech-blog/2019/05/30/levelling-up-as-developer.html