Developer Practice
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Like any other discipline, programmers must dedicate a certain portion of their time to improving their workflow and skillset. This might include working along with a programming video, or practicing a coding kata, or reviewing a new tool. In this series, one topic per episode, we’ll review examples of what this developer practice looks like.
Play Up and Down the Neck
When I was in school studying to be a professional musician, it wasn’t enough to simply learn a new chord progression or lick. Instead, to truly grasp it, we would learn how to play that very melody up and down the guitar neck, in multiple positions. The same is absolutely true for programming. Let’s review an example where we take a basic PHP function like array_chunk(), and rewrite in several unique ways.
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