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

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• - Complete
• [W] - Working On
• [-] - Future

Learn a variety of programming paradigms:

• [W] Write a program in assembly 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 Forth

** 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 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

** 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
• [-] 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