How to be a more literate developer

I recently saw a post on Reddit that was talking about how we're creating a generation of illiterate developers. This blog is a work in progress, but I'm giving a Talk at DePaul on February 26, 2025 and I want to give some ideas on how to combat that - and become a truly literate developer.

I'll fill in my talk later, but for now, here are my ideas for things you can do to become more literate.

* Don’t copy and paste code without understanding it.

* Debug on your own first - THEN go to Google

* Just because “it works” doesn’t make it “good code”

* Don’t fear the command line

* Learn how your code runs in production.

* Learn to read other people’s code and understand it

* Be able to explain what your code does to a non-technical person

* Try on your own first THEN go to AI

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