AstonJ

AstonJ

What makes or made your life easier as a developer?

Maybe a specific language or framework? Or a book or tool perhaps? What’s made your life easier and what do you think could make the lives of other devs easier?

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OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

A good IDE. I am absolutely against the stance of those that say “any programmer can program just fine in a simple text editor”, well sure you can but you can be significantly more effective in a good IDE. It’s both a great teaching tool and a great productivity tool.

conradwt

conradwt

Hi, the things that made my life easier as a developer is as follows:

  • access to an active developer community that’s open to newcomers and answering their questions

  • resources (i.e. books, articles, online courses, webinars, and so on)

joeb

joeb

The book ’ Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware’ has been helpful in my career.

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