Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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things that I've added in bold

Learn a variety of programming paradigms:

• Write a program in assembly language
• Write a program in an imperative language
• Write an application in a functional language
• Write an application in an object-oriented language
• Write an application in a prototype-based language
• Write an application in a logic programming language
• Write an application using a language supporting the Actor model
• Write an application in a concatenative language
• Write an application in a array-oriented language
• Write a data definition and data access layer for a complex domain

Experience the ins and outs of programming for different platforms:

• Write a nontrivial web app
• Write a nontrivial desktop app
• Write a nontrivial mobile app
• Write a nontrivial game
• Write an embedded app
• Write a realtime system

Enhance your understanding of the building blocks that we use as developers:

• Write a networking client (e.g., HTTP, FTP)
• Write a device driver
• Write a B-tree database
• Wrap an existing library to provide a better (more pleasant) user experience
• Write an application or framework that provides a plugin model
• Write a testing framework
• Write an interpreted programming language
• Write a compiled programming language
• Write a logic-based programming language
• Write an operating system kernel
• Write a text editor
• Write a game engine

Get your hands dirty with hardware:

• Write some code for a single-board computing system
• Write a CPU emulator
• Target that same CPU on a FPGA
• Build that same CPU from discrete parts
• Build a small machine around your CPU
• Write a program for your machine
• Build a robot

Enlighten yourself with koans, katas, and the wisdom of ages:

• Complete five code katas
• Complete the programming koans for a language that you want to learn
• Attend a code retreat
• Read SICP and complete all the exercises
• Read a standard

Program in the open:

• Contribute to an open source project
• Have a patch accepted
• Earn commit rights on a significant open source project
• Publish an open source project
• Perform a Refactotum of an open source project
• Contribute to a standard

Learn by teaching others:

• Present a lightning talk
• Present at a local user group
• Present at a conference
• Deliver a training course
• Publish a tutorial
• Publish a constructive code review of an open source project
• Write a programming book

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Learn a variety of programming paradigms:

• (/) Write a program in assembly language
• (/) Write a program in an imperative language
• (/) Write an application in a functional language
• (/) Write an application in an object-oriented language
• (/) Write an application in a prototype-based language
• (/) Write an application in a logic programming language
• (/) Write an application using a language supporting the Actor model
• Write an application in a concatenative language
• Write an application in a array-oriented language
• (/) Write a data definition and data access layer for a complex domain

Experience the ins and outs of programming for different platforms:

• (/) Write a nontrivial web app
• (/) Write a nontrivial desktop app
• (/) Write a nontrivial mobile app
• (/) Write a nontrivial game
• (/) Write an embedded app
• (/) Write a realtime system

Enhance your understanding of the building blocks that we use as developers:

• (/) Write a networking client (e.g., HTTP, FTP)
• (/) Write a device driver
• Write a B-tree database
• (/) Wrap an existing library to provide a better (more pleasant) user experience
• (/) Write an application or framework that provides a plugin model
• Write a testing framework
• (/) Write an interpreted programming language
• (/) Write a compiled programming language
• Write a logic-based programming language
• (/) Write an operating system kernel
• (/) Write a text editor
• (/) Write a game engine

Get your hands dirty with hardware:

• Write some code for a single-board computing system
• (/) Write a CPU emulator
• Target that same CPU on a FPGA
• Build that same CPU from discrete parts
• Build a small machine around your CPU
• Write a program for your machine
• Build a robot

Enlighten yourself with koans, katas, and the wisdom of ages:

• (/) Complete five code katas
• (/) Complete the programming koans for a language that you want to learn
• Attend a code retreat
• (/) Read SICP and complete all the exercises (only 1st edition so far)
• (/) Read a standard

Program in the open:

• (/) Contribute to an open source project
• (/) Have a patch accepted
• (/) Earn commit rights on a significant open source project
• (/) Publish an open source project
• Perform a Refactotum of an open source project
• Contribute to a standard

Learn by teaching others:

• Present a lightning talk
• (/) Present at a local user group
• (/) Present at a conference
• Deliver a training course
• (/) Publish a tutorial
• (/) Publish a constructive code review of an open source project
• (/) Write a programming book