Cheat sheets are concise references that provide quick instructions for accomplishing coding tasks. They can be used for memory refreshing, avoiding reinventing solutions, and building knowledge over time. Developers make cheat sheets freely available online, and they can also be obtained from colleagues, friends, tutorials, and online communities. Examples include cheat sheets for web designers, WordPress, and HTML5.

1. Cheat Sheets for coding
Presented by:
Isaac Oteyo
SCOSIT
October 12, 2010

2. Summary
• Introduction
• What are cheat sheets?
• How can they be used?
• How useful are they?
• Where do you get them?
• Examples
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3. Introduction
• Everything has a way of being done
• The initiator of anything always has
guidelines e.g. how to play soccer, cooking
chapati etc.
• We limit ourselves to coding
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4. What are cheat sheets?
• Concise set of notes used for quick
reference.
• So named because of students
• They are memory refreshing tools
• In coding they are reference tools that
provide simple, brief instructions for
accomplishing a specific task.
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5. How can they be used?
• Quick reference
• Getting knowledge from experts
• Re-using what is already there
• “Lazy coders” – showing others how to
do something
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6. How useful are they?
• Memory refreshing tools
• Come handy when stuck
• Quick way of avoiding re-inventing the
wheel
• Cumulatively gradual way of building
knowledge – building on what others
have done
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7. Where do you get them?
• Developers of products have manuals freely
available on the internet
• Java, PHP, Python, Android, CSS etc
• Friends – both near and far away, social media
• FoAF – Friends of a Friend
• Colleagues at work, school etc
• Online tutorials – w3schools etc
• Online communities – mailing lists, technology
user groups etc
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8. Examples
• Useful cheat sheets for web designers,
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_for_we
• Wordpress cheat sheets,
http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/15-useful-cheat-sheets
/
•Useful HTML5 cheat sheets,
http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/15-useful-
html5-tutorials-and-cheat-sheets
•PHP Manual, Really Big Index for Java etc
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9. Thank You.
Q&A
isaacoteyo@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/ioteyo
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