0. Thou shall “be excellent to each other”

• When you help others learn you learn as well. You learn better. Even if you are a rockstar unicorn, if nobody wants to work with you on the same team, it’s kind of pointless. Also you do not want John Wick coming after you ( for not being excellent)

1. Thou shall learn command line

• Be that fish, bash, zsh - learn the console and most common command line tools ( grep, find, traceroute, etc) on your primary OS. Then learn it on “the other OS”.

2. Thou shall type > 40 WPM

• You don’t need to be world’s fastest typist, but you should type faster than my grandma (~38 WPM is US average), and do it without looking at the keyboard. If only for your own sanity’s sake. And your pair programming partner’s.

3. Thou shall learn your IDE

• Be that Visual Studio, Vim, Sublime Text, or even nano. Learn it. Be proficient with it. Know thy shortcuts. Besides Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

4. Thou shall use SCM

• Any source/version control management system - be that Git, Mercurial, even Visual Studio Team Services ( if you are into that kind of thing) would do.

5. Thou shall code every day

• Programming is a muscle skill, that needs to be exercised and challenged constantly in order to grow. Especially when you are a student.

6. Thou shall learn your primary language well

• Before you start learning the “latest flavor of the month” language and framework, learn one popular language. Learn it well.

7. Thou shall test

• Not in production! “It works on Frank’s computer”, is not an acceptable quality standard.

8. Thou shall learn your stack

• Learn your deploy tools, basic hosting platform, web server, build tools, OS, CI & CD systems, cloud platform, etc. You don’t need to be a DevOps ninja, but you need to understand it.

// 9. Thou shall comment

• You are in danger of getting some really bad karma from people who have to read you code, if you don’t.

10. Thou shall open-source

• We all stand on the shoulders of giants who came before us. They gave us an option to work with some truly amazing tech. Don’t be a putz, and contribute back. Even a little.

11. Thou shall learn OOP. Then FP. Then DP. Then IP.

• Read Gang of Four book and understand it. Don’t reinvent a square wheel. Then learn another programing paradigm. That reinvents a square wheel.

12. Thou shall never cease to learn new things

• Cease learning -> increase entropy -> universe dies a little -> you make a puppy cry somewhere. DO NOT MAKE A PUPPY CRY! ( You know how John Wick feels about puppies…)

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