Ask HN: How to become a professional developer

[hosseingt]

Hi I've been a programmer since 6 years ago, and i can say, i'm a good programmer, but in our teams or our companies we are just programming, not any professional work (no test plan, no bug resolve routine, no prototyping and ...). I want to know is there any resource for learning حrincipled aspects of programming and do my job in world level class?

[herbst]

Just do it. Its a pain to get started but after a while it just feels natural. Also contributing to open source projects could help.