Street-Smart Coding: 30 Ways to Get Better at Coding Without Losing Your Mind
Have you spent hours and hours going through tutorials, only to feel like you're still not good at coding?
Ten years ago, I was there too: watching video after video. Reading tutorial after tutorial. And learning tools and concepts I didn't know when (or if) I'd ever use.
One day, I typed "How to get better at coding," and fell into a rabbit hole of contradictory advice. "Document your code..." "Don't document your code..."
It took me years and trial and error to figure out what actually works. And more importantly, I had to learn that coding takes more than just syntax.
That’s why I wrote Street-Smart Coding.
If you're a junior coder or mid-level developer who's asked "how to get better at coding," Street-Smart Coding is for you.
This isn’t a textbook. It’s a roadmap with 30 proven lessons to help you level up your coding skills.
Inside, you'll learn to:
- Ask for help like a pro
- Write cleaner code with simple guidelines
- Debug without banging your head against a wall
And after these lessons, you'll think like a senior developer who knows there's more to coding than just syntax.
Some lessons are timeless foundations. Others are unconventional strategies you won't find in tutorials. Together, they will change how you think about coding.
- One lesson will teach you two principles to make your code easier to understand and debug. That's on Chapter #16.
- Another lesson will save you from staying at work until 3:00AM. That's on Chapter #21.
- Another comes from a popular TV show. And no, it's not Mr. Robot or Silicon Valley. That's on Chapter #29. It will teach you about problem-solving.
All of these lessons are battle-tested over 10 years in tech companies and agencies.
Examples are in C#, because that’s the language that’s paid my bills. But every lesson applies no matter what language you’re learning.
No matter what language you're learning, these lessons will help you code like a pro.
These are the lessons I wish someone had shared with me when I was starting out. The lessons I learned through plenty of mistakes, late nights, and real-world projects.
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