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by ams6110 5759 days ago
I became a better programmer by writing a lot of programs.
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This will definitely help, to a point. Reflecting on programs you've wrote and seeing the mistakes you made is also important.

I've had colleagues that had wrote hundreds of programs, but they were mostly the same boilerplate, same glue, with different business logic. Writing a lot of different, varied programs, is key.

You can become an even better programmer by re-writing your programs.

Refactoring your code, or possibly coming up with an entirely different approach to solving the problem is what I consider one the most important parts of becoming a better programmer.