Explains 5 Steps to Get Better at Coding

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Five concrete habits claim to produce steady improvement: practice, perform, write, network, share. Practice means building repeatable toy apps (movie-night scheduler, Twitter/Facebook clones) to learn language semantics across Java, Ruby, Go, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Objective‑C and Swift. Pair programming and 20% project time serve as joint practice; publishing small open‑source libraries and blog posts force polish and feedback. Anecdote: pairing with Pat shaunessy slows fast hacks into cleaner code and teaches different mental models.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:12What are these 5 steps
3. 0:28Step 1 Practice
4. 3:12Step 2 Pair Programming
5. 4:31Step 3 Practice
6. 5:53Practical Examples
7. 7:55Learning a New Language

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