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Get Better at Reading Documentation, Specifications and Requirements

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Reading comprehension is a valuable skill to practice as a software developer. Break down paragraphs into sentences and then words.

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In your day to day you’ll be reading documenation, specifications, requirements or problems written by others and your job is to make sense of it all. Often times you’ll be writing a program to solve the problem based on what you’ve read.

Being able to break things down into tiny steps is critically important.

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  • 0:18 – Being mindful of when to break something down
  • 1:06 – Understanding what to do
  • 2:05 – Keep breaking things down until it makes sense
  • 3:39 – This is something I do all the time when reading docs
  • 5:16 – Practicing is good and it paid off for them
  • 7:52 – I did write a blog post on breaking down problems years ago
  • 9:28 – Breaking down a fairly small coding problem

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