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First way to improve yourself as a developer is to challenge yourself with new, interesting and difficult problems to solve.

This is because the most important seal a developer has is the ability to problem solve for anything that comes up in their development career.

So challenging yourself with new and interesting things is one of the quickest ways to improve your ability to problem soul and thus become a better developer.

One of the best ways to challenge yourself is to research new and interesting languages or frameworks that you want to learn and then either read articles on them or watch YouTube videos on these ideas toe.

Learn more about these languages and frameworks.

After that's done, I would move on to creating some projects around these different languages and frameworks, which leads perfectly into the next way.

You could improve yourself as a developer, which is to create projects that interest you.

You may have watched a ton of different tutorials around job a skirt, but just watching his tutorials alone and following along.

Kiefer Key word for word doesn't actually help you with learning JavaScript.

It made familiar realize you with the syntax and give you a general idea of how javascript could be used.

But until you actually sit down and tackle your own job script related project, you don't truly understand the depths of Java script.

This is why I think tackling projects that interest you is one of the most important skills that developer can have in one of the quickest ways to increase your skills as a developer.

When I myself was first learning what development creating projects that interested me was by far the quickest way that I was able to learn things and also the most entertaining for me, since it's much more enjoyable to create something that interests you rather than just watch a tutorial online about something that you may be interested about but most likely or not the third way that you can prove your skills as a developer.

It's not just learn new frameworks in languages, but to actually research intermediate and advanced programming topics, for example, this could include things such as testing code, re factoring clean code designed patterns, et cetera, And these things could be really easily found either on YouTube or on block articles, explaining and talking about these concepts and then showing you examples of how to use these concepts that really difficult sometimes to wrap your head around.

So it's really important to be able to read these articles or watch these videos before you actually try to implement these different ideas into the projects that you're creating.

It also takes a really long time to fully grasp these different ideas of creating clean code.

And really, the only way that you can do it is to just create a project and realize how it looks.

Before you implement these ideas and how it looks active, implement these ideas, and then you can truly see the huge benefits you gain from using clean coat and testing inside of your different projects.

The fourth way to become a better developer is to never stop learning.

Morning is one of the most important and fundamental things that the developer can do because development and technology is constantly evolving and changing.

I know that most people, when they get started burning development, they go full on into it and really get immersed into the whole learning of new things, and they get really excited about it.

But as soon as they land their very first job, they start to lay back, relax and say, Well, I have a job I don't need to worry about keeping up with Things are learning because I already know what I need to know from my job.

But that couldn't be more wrong.

I think it's incredibly important that someone as a developer is constantly at least spending a little bit of time researching and learning about new things, because you never know if you could find something new that interest you even more.

Or if the technology already knows, goes out of date and becomes old.

You're already prepared with knowledge of something that's newer and better that you can use to apply for new jobs in the future.

I'm not saying that you need to spend all of your free time learning, but I do think it's a really important that you spend a little bit of time here in there, just picking your interest, learning new things, just a CZ you did when you were very first learning how to become a developer.

Lastly, the fifth and possibly most important thing a developer can do to become a better developer.

It's surprisingly, not do development, and now that may sound really strange, but it's incredibly important that as a developer programmer, that you do other things besides development and programming in your free time is really easy to get into that.

My instead of constantly learn, learn, learn, do more, do more, do more.

But it's really important to take a step back and do other things in your life.

Other than development and programming Rose, you're going to get burnt out incredibly quickly, and you're going to start resenting the thing that you love so much.

There's a point in my life where I would go to school all day studying programming.

I would go to my internship after school and do Web development.

I would come home from that and study new and interesting things in Weld development as well as to build my business, which was also development related, and that led to every day of my life being filled to the brim with Web development and programming, and that really started around me It was incredibly enjoyable at first, doing something I love so much, but doing too much of anything will become incredibly resentful and boring.

And I started to hate having to go to my internship or doing studying after school or whatever it was.

So taking a step back from that, cutting out a lot of the after school and after work development that I did and replacing it with activities I also enjoyed, such as going bowling.

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We helped me actually become a better developer because I was able to enjoy the work.

I was doing more and actually be able to focus more intently on the times that I focused on development.

It also helped my life as a whole because I was able to focus on the things that brought me happiness of both mentally and physically as well, which I wasn't able to fit is much time into when I was solely focused on Web development.

This is why I think it's incredibly important that as a developer, that you make sure to fit in time to do other things that you enjoy, especially if those things involve getting up, out from behind a computer and possibly going outside or exercising or anything that just gets you up and moving, since as a developer you spend a lot of time in front of a computer programming all day.

So it's really important to balance that with something else that gets you up and moving for a different part of your day.

I hope you are able to take these five different skills and apply them to your wife Did not only become a better developer, but to become a better person and a happier person.

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