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How To “Level Up” In Programming

Easy to way to ‘level up’ in programming is to ask for somebody else to review your code and to bitch about everything that he doesn’t like. After that you’ll go through all the comments and do something about them if you think those are right, if not then you’ll ’spar’ / argue with the reviewer – note : in that you don’t have to find a solution which pleases both, idea is to get new point of views and to learn.

Some common code review rules :

• Reviewer leaves TODO’s in code and describes what is wrong in there and how could it be done.
• Reviewer is not allowed to change the code in any way!
• To remove a TODO you’ll have to do something about it, e.g. either change the code or challenge the reviewer.

I have always used this at my work and it has really been useful. Try it out and level up!