29 behaviors of unstoppable programmers:
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Use Google very aggressively. Before I started Turing, I didn't see Google as a valuable tool in programming. Now I see that MOST OF MY ACTUAL JOB will be to Google things on the regular. Knowing how to phrase what I want to have answered is important, aka "Ruby ______ " as well as knowing how to read the results. (i.e. don't get lost in stack overflow and only look at code exerpts of answers.) I know there are even more specific ways to go about Googling, and I look forward to using them in my projects.
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Understand that “code is cheap.” I hate this concept. I hate it. I don't like the idea of slogging away at something and realizing I'm in the Einstellung effect and having to throw it ALL away and start over. But, its SO needed. Its very important to step away and re-do stuff up to an including starting over. Especially with how fast tech evolves, how could we be expected to know such an amazing time-tested process for writing such that we will never have to start over again? That will not happen, at least not in my lifetime!