7 helpful tips for junior developers.

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🔹START A SIDE PROJECTS

You may be busy with work, or school (or both). Whenever you have the time, engage in little projects that will hone your coding skills.

It doesn't have to be something big, you can make it as simple as possible.
🔹LEARN TO PROPERLY TEST YOUR CODE

There is nothing worst than writing a code ridden with bugs. Testing is one of the most important disciplines in programming, invest in it.

Learn about unit testing, UI testing, integration testing etc.
🔹UNDERSTAND HOW THINGS REALLY WORKS

You should go deeper than just superficial knowledge in programming.

Knowing how each frameworks behaves in relation to each other will help you make the right decision on what to learn and what to use for your projects.
🔹PLAN YOUR DAY

This is something I myself struggle a lot with. Carefully planning out your activities each day doesn't just make you more organized, but productive as well.

It also makes you more consistent in action.

Nothing beats organization.
🔹TAKE NOTES

No one really knows when a great idea will pop out his/her mind. Always carry a small note with you, everywhere you go.

Normalize the act of note taking whenever you learn something new. It helps a lot.
🔹LEARN HOW TO GOOGLE EFFECTIVELY

This may be awkward given that we use Google all the time. But being able to use it well may make the difference for you and your code.

I was puzzled by the amount of personalized solutions you can find by Google. You just have to find it!
🔹PLAN BEFORE YOU CODE

One of the most difficult part of code development is making the installations and setting up environments and dependencies.

Thus, you have to plan and iron out all of these prerequisites before commencing.
That's all.

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