64: Practicing Programming to increase your value

I want you to get the most out of being a software developer, or test engineer, or whatever you do that makes this podcast relevant to your life.

By "get the most" I mean:

• the most fun
• the most value
• more career options
• probably more responsibility
• maybe even more money, that'd be cool

I want you to start (or continue) studying and practicing your skills.

But not just random practice, I've got a strategy to help you focus what to study.

Why am I talking about this now? Here's some background on how I re-learned how to have fun with code refactoring through code challenges.

I'm going to write up the whole list as a blog post, which I'll share first with my Patreon Supporters, second with my email list and slack channel and then as an actual post somewhere.

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• PyBites Code Challenges: Self-contained Python Code Challenges you can code and verify in the browser.

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Links:

• practicing-programming - Steve Yegge — essay
• The Ultimate Code Kata - Jeff Atwood
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter Norvig
• PyBites Code Challenges — Hone your Python Skills, in the browser
• CheckiO — JavaScript & Python challenges
• Exercism — code practice
• Codewars — Train with Programming Challenges/Kata
• Python Morsels — Challenges emailed to you once a week
• subreddit of code challenges