Best New Year Resolutions for Programmers

As a programmer, there is a proven way to success and there is no better time than the beginning of a new year to pave a new success road for your journey.If you are a beginner and if you are not familiar with C or C++, it is now time for you to learn them. This will be of crucial help to every programmer. You also need to spend some of your time to acquaint yourself with the comp.lang.c FAQ.  Though you might not be able to understand the whole of it, you can identify a handful of sections that you will find interesting and comfortable. It might appear silly to read the answers for others’ questions. However,they may contain certain valuable inputs that you have not come across so far.

If you are an intermediate in the programming arena, understanding Unicode will be very useful to you. Don’t underestimate unicode’s potential. It is not just limited to the set of 65,000 characters that you can use. Joel Spolsky has revealed the unknown vistas of Unicode that programmers must know in which he has stated clearly that you cannot run too long only with the first 256 ASCII characters. Grep is another useful program that helps you search a defined list of files meant for a particular regular expression.

This program will also familiarise you with some of the basic principles of computer science. As an intermediate, you may write Grep to learn about regular languages, finite state machines, method of converting regular expressions into NDFAs and converting an NDFA into a DFA.If you are an advanced programmer, then set yourself with learning an entirely new language that will open the arenas of a new style of programming. Though C is a valuable tool, you need to know that it is just an imperative lanuguage. Similarly C++ will only enable an undestanding of programming oriented towards the object. Learning Scheme, a function oriented programming leanguage will enhance your potentials in your field. Though you might not use all of it, it will certainly enrich your programing knowledge and bring about a significant change in the way you understand programming.

Ruby is yet another programming language that you can give a try. This is completely object oriented and highly appealing in terms of its structure. Inquisitive research is very essential for success in programming. Google Scholar will expose you to some cutting edge research questions. So, there is so much for you to do and don’t be satisfied with just sitting back and doing the old goods that you have been doing all the time. Best of luck to make a new beginning this new year.