3 Tips to Becoming a Good Software Engineer

Here’s what helped me and I trust it will help you too

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I’ve been in the software industry for more than five years now and have already worked with more technologies, languages and tools than I could’ve ever imagined. Over these five years, I’ve slowly grown to be a good software engineer and have learnt a few things along this journey. This article consists of tips to help you on your journey to becoming a good software engineer. Let’s dive right in.

Learning to learn

If there’s one thing that’s constant in the IT world, it is that technologies keep changing. Every few years, you might hear of the next big thing that you need to upskill on. The existing toolkit in the IT world is also quite diverse, so even if there is nothing new coming up, each company works with a different toolset. So, if you switch jobs, it’s very likely that you might need to upskill yourself on something new.

For this reason, I wouldn’t advise a specific technology or toolset. Instead, I’d advise you to learn how to learn. Or, more specifically, learn how you learn in the most efficient way.

Do video tutorials help you better than reading blogs? Do you like to throw yourself into the deep end and reverse engineer your way back to the start or do…