The document provides tips for becoming a better programmer, including getting interested in programming, learning tools and languages, understanding algorithms and data structures, practicing different approaches to problem solving, collaborating with other programmers, and constantly learning new skills and paradigms over many years.

1. How to start... And how to finish... How to code

2. Is it for me ? You don't care about your code.

3. You want to code.

4. You know that your code is not best.

5. You want to be best.

6. You are done with college/school exercise.

7. Get Interested Your should like programming.

8. Create a programming environment around.

9. Get Aware Change your books, if it is YK.

10. Change your compiler, if it is TC++.

11. It might if wonderful if you can shift to a better OS like Debian Linux, Mac

12. Join Mailing lists/Groups like LUGs.

13. Learn helper tools. Learn your OS, If it is Windows better change it.

14. Learn a good editor like emacs/vim.

15. Learn utilities like grep, find, ssh, scp, git, etc ...

16. Learn how to diff, merge, patch.

17. Learn few scripting language like bash, perl etc.

18. Theory and algo Read all the API at least once.