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
Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer
things that I've added in bold
Learn a variety of programming paradigms:
Write a program in assembly language- 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 a language supporting the Actor model
- Write an application in a concatenative language
- Write an application in a array-oriented language
- Write a data definition and data access layer for a complex domain
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
- 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 an interpreted programming language
- Write a compiled programming language
- Write a logic-based programming language
- Write an operating system kernel
- Write a text editor
- Write a game engine
Get your hands dirty with hardware:
- Write some code for a single-board computing system
- Write a CPU emulator
- Target that same CPU on a FPGA
- Build that same CPU from discrete parts
- Build a small machine around your CPU
- Write a program for your machine
- Build a robot
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
- Read a standard
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
- Contribute to a standard
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 a variety of programming paradigms:
- (/) Write a program in assembly language
- (/) 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 a language supporting the Actor model
- Write an application in a concatenative language
- Write an application in a array-oriented language
- (/) Write a data definition and data access layer for a complex domain
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
- (/) 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 an interpreted programming language
- (/) Write a compiled programming language
- Write a logic-based programming language
- (/) Write an operating system kernel
- (/) Write a text editor
- (/) Write a game engine
Get your hands dirty with hardware:
- Write some code for a single-board computing system
- (/) Write a CPU emulator
- Target that same CPU on a FPGA
- Build that same CPU from discrete parts
- Build a small machine around your CPU
- Write a program for your machine
- Build a robot
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 (only 1st edition so far)
- (/) Read a standard
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
- Contribute to a standard
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
No, those are just my additions to the original list.
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why are some of the items in bold
eg. "Write a nontrivial game"
Do you consider it more important? are you trying it out at this moment?