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Three things I learnt from The Pragmatic Programmer - Chapter 3

Three things that I learnt from the Pragmatic Programmer - Chapter 3.  Link to chapter 1 here. 

1. Achieve editor fluency to make you so much faster. Try to do the following without using the mouse and preferably in one keyboard combo:

    - select characters, words, lines, paragraphs
    - format and indent code
     - comment/uncomment block of code
     - undo and redo changes
    - spilt the editor into multiple panels
    - navigate to a line number
    - search for strings
    - create multiple cursors based on a search term
    - run all tests
    - find compilation errors

2. Debugging but can't find a bug? Use the Binary Chop method - split code in half. Which half causes the bug/gives you unexpected values? Repeat. Most efficient way to track it down.

3. Keep an 'Engineering Daybook' or personal physical notebook. Keep important things you jot down in here; a record of all you're working on at one point in time. A personal addition that I have found useful is adopting the bullet journal style of numbering pages and keeping an index at the end of the book. You never run out of space and can find any note again.

Link to Chapter 4 here.



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