My presentation on how to get better at what you do and learn effectively

1. Tamizhvendan S
http://sweettam.blogspot.com
@tamizhvendan

2. Learning!
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 Our profession requires constant learning
 How to learn effectively ?
 I don’t have much time, there are plenty to learn!

3. Tip#1 Use Twitter
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 Follow good and smart people!!
 Stay up to date with no extra effort

4. Tip#2 Study Good books
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 Study not Read
 Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt and Dave
Thomas
 Clean Code – Robert C Martin
 Refactoring – Martin Fowler
 Passionate Programmer – Chad Fowler
 Art of Unix Programming – Steven Raymond
 Productive Programmer – Neil Ford

5. Tip#3 Read Blogs
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 All geeks are blogging , why don’t we make use of it
 Use and Spend some quality time on
 Google Reader
 Reddit
 news.ycombinator.com

6. Tip#4 Put your head down
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 Code for fun and Practice Katas!
 Learn a new language that you don’t need
 Learn shortcuts and get better at what you know
 Exploit the power of shell

7. Tip#5 Learn from other people
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 Read Code
 Make the most of screencasts/podcasts/tech videos
 Channel9
 InfoQ
 .Net Rocks
 Attend conferences

8. Tip#6 Understand the trend
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Html 5
Parallelism

9. Tip#7 Share your knowledge
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 Blog about what you have
learned, mistakes, success, failures
 Tech/Community talks
 Speak at Conferences
 Have learning coffee/tea breaks

10. Tip#8 Agile Learning
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 There are lot to learn, how to manage!
 Agile Learning
 List down stuffs to learn
 Prioritize and make a Learning plan/path
 Put a time bound (Reasonable)
 Get hands dirty
 Retrospect
 Multimode Learning (Harness both sides of brain)
 Books, Audio, Video
 Blog, Open Source Contribution

11. Tip#9 Stay Away
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 Take care of your health
 Take short and long breaks
 Manage your time
 The leftfield
 Art, Philosophy, Foreign Language, Science, Music
Instrument, etc.,

12. Bullet Points
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 Learn a new language, framework, or methodology
 Get better at what you know
 Explore a new field
 Engage the community
 Share your knowledge
 Take better care of yourself
 Manage your time
 Take some breaks

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