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Monday, February 16, 2015

5 Tips to Become a Better Programmer

In this article I am sharing the 5 best tips that will really help you to increase your programming skills and become a better programmer.

Also Read: 5 Facile Yet Incredibly Valuable Ways to Enhance ASP.NET Developer’s Efficiency

1. Know Basics

You should have a good understanding of basics of the programming language in which you are working or learning. If your basic concepts are strong then you can solve complex problems by breaking it into smaller problems. Your code should be neat and well structured, so that if you start working with the code after few months then you can easily know where you left off.

2. Practice a Lot

We all know the fact that “practice makes a man perfect”. For improving your skills you have to practice thousands of hours. There are plenty of ways for practicing, like you can solve problems from good programming booksor find online programming contests. There are many awesome websites like codechef.com, topcoder.com, etc where you can practice.

3. Be Amenable to Change

Technology is changing very rapidly so you have to aware of such changes. You should make sure that the projects or technologies on which you are working are not outdated. For becoming a better programmer you should always engage yourself in learning new things.

4. Read a Lot

The more you read, the more you learn. Read good programming books, articles, documentations. The best way for reading and learning programming is to join various programming forums and contests.

5. Help Others

Join great forums like stackoverflow.comwhere you can help other programmers by answering there questions. By helping others you can find answers of your own questions. You can also ask questions in the forums and get your problems solved; this will help you to become better programmer.

These are few tips that will surely help you in becoming a better programmer. If you have any other tips then please mention it in the comment section.

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authorSTREAM upgrades PowerPoint to video engine claims to be better than PowerPoint 2010

Online presentation sharing website authorSTREAM has announced an upgrade to their PowerPoint to video conversion engine. authorSTREAM lets you convert your PowerPoint presentations in WMV, AVI, FLV and MP4 video formats. Once converted videos users can send share them on YouTube via send to YouTube option or download on desktop to burn on DVD.

Prior to PowerPoint 2010, authorSTREAM was the only online option for converting PowerPoint presentations in video format. authorSTREAMs PowerPoint to video engine now supports embedded videos and slide transition effects.

Here is the comparison put up by authorSTREAM between PowerPoint to video capabilities of authorSTREAM and PowerPoint 2010:

Features	authorSTREAM	PowerPoint 2010
PowerPoint to Video conversion support	Supports video conversion for most PowerPoint versions (2002(XP)/2003/2007/2010)	Supports video conversion only in PowerPoint 2010
Audio support in video conversions, created out of any PowerPoint presentation version	Yes	Audio compatibility issues are more often
Playing sound across selected slides	Yes	Yes, but when more than 1 audio file is inserted in a presentation and selected for specific slides, audio overlapping problems crop up
Transition sound effect	Yes	No
Preference to rehearse timings set for each slide (in case when slide contains some media)	Yes	No
Video formats support	AVI, FLV, MP4 and WMV	WMV video format only
Share presentation videos on YouTube	Send directly to YouTube (no need to download)	Upload manually