1. How to be a good Programmer
By Elvis Lesha
How to be a good Programmer

2. Bad Programmer Writing code without thinking
Poor understanding of the programming language model
Lack of Critical Thinking
Not being able to write a program from scratch
Messy code
No comments
Random indentation

3. Good Programmer

4. Problem Solving
Analyze the problem
Divide into sub-problems

5. Algorithms Have a good understanding of algorithms
Know how to use them

6. Language Pick a Language
Ensure you have a good understanding of it
Once you’ve learnt one language you can apply the same concepts to another language

7. Practicing Constantly keep programming Help others with their code
Set yourself small tasks
Help others with their code
StackOverflow

8. Debugging
To be good at debugging, you also need to practice. When you have lots of experience, it’s easy to formulate hypothesis about what’s wrong

9. Quality Code Simple code Understandable code
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Bill Gates
Understandable code
Well structured (indentation etc..)
Write Documentation (comments)

10. Coding contest
International Collegiate Programming contest
topcoder

11. Working on project Work on small piece of a large project
Start your own project

12. Apis and libraries You don’t always have to reinvent the wheel
Read documentation

13. Things to think about while coding
Testing
Bugs
Don’t leave the testing until the end
Design
Interface
User experience

14. SUMMARY To be a good programmer: Think logically Practice Help others
Experiment