Get Better at Reading Documentation, Specifications and Requirements
Reading comprehension is a valuable skill to practice as a software developer. Break down paragraphs into sentences and then words.
Quick Jump:
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.
# Going Over This Topic
Timestamps
- 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
Reference Links
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/breaking-down-problems-is-the-number-1-software-developer-skill
- https://adventofcode.com/
How do you better understand problems so you can solve them? Let me know below.