I posted a video to my #GCAP21 presentation a little while back and I just remembered that I loathe video tutorials. So, to remedy that, I'm going to post the entire presentation, summarised down to tweet form. Here's the original: This talk is about how you can become a better programmer. It focuses on the soft skills which can be just as important as your hard tech skills.

I'm thinking about doing a talk on how to be a better programmer and I'd love to hear what other people think makes a good programmer. I'll lead with a few ideas: Curiosity; I think that a natural urge to go further down the rabbit hole can be a useful trait. ie, a bug may be avoided by changing the order of some variable declarations, but WHY? Digging down to root causes can lead to long term fixes rather than cargo cult patches.