Julia's coding blog - Practice makes perfect

From January 2015, she started to practice leetcode questions; she trains herself to stay focus, develops "muscle" memory when she practices those questions one by one. 2015年初, Julia开始参与做Leetcode, 开通自己第一个博客. 刷Leet code的题目, 她看了很多的代码, 每个人那学一点, 也开通Github, 发表自己的代码, 尝试写自己的一些体会. She learns from her favorite sports – tennis, 10,000 serves practice builds up good memory for a great serve. Just keep going. Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Summer 2017

Sept. 3, 2017

Introduction

It is the early morning, after 8 hours hiking, I went to bed early and ended up to get up around 3:30am, now it is 5:30am, I decided to write a blog called "A programmer is seasonal?". I am trying to do a small research how the summer activities enriches a programmer's life living in the city of Vancouver, I may be able to perform better as a software programmer.

I decided to go out hiking last Saturday once I got the invitation. I had a busy week, I started to use github account to track my source code progress, I also evaluated the ransom virus and build a working environment on a new hard disk since the virus encrypted all files in my old computer.

Source control

One thing I did and also very helpful is that I print out the code I rewrote, code review and put them on paper. So, it was so good to read the code on those papers when I found out a few pages code lost in the shuffle of version control, server and local hard disk. I just found out so many weakest points to review my working procedures. I can be better and powered with so many tools.

Try to address a few issues based on facts:

1. It is easy to catch up the technologies these days. I just started to use github version control less than one month ago. There are so many advanced features of github, it is also exciting to learn some advanced features.

3. I have more activities to go out with friends in the summer last few weekends. I had a trip to Vancouver island, hiking with friends, friends from California visited the city of Vancouver. Those activities makes a programmer more happy.

4. One more research in summer is what if I decide to lose 10 or 20 lbs. What should I change?

5. Now it is US open tennis 2 weeks. I learned a lot from those players, do those player help me to understand better the competition in the market about talent, what should I do to take advantage of it? I want to be strong and more competitive programmer.

Actionable Items

Need to figure out how to make this small blog more organized, readable. Figure out 2 or 3 ideas to work on.