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The Most Important Facts About Programming

The facts that you need to realize to become an exceptional developer.

Shalitha Suranga
4 min readJan 4, 2021
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Programming and software are trending words in the world due to the digitization of things. Every field has a set of fundamental facts that helps everyone to understand reality. People find out these facts when they work in a particular field for a long time. For example, in civil engineering, engineers know that a newly built concrete structure will change its size with time. In their field, that’s an important fact, and they may use some techniques to overcome the side-effects of it.

Likewise, programming also has a lot of facts that every developer should understand. I stepped into the programming field about a decade ago. I experienced a lot of facts and myths in programming. I tried to rank the most important facts about programming considering all situations I faced.

The perfect code doesn’t exist.

Nothing is perfect in the world. The same logic applies to your source codes as well. At a code review, someone can say that the code is really good. On the other hand, someone can disagree with that. At the designing phase of a software system, engineers can propose thousands of design patterns. Whereas, we go ahead with the most practical and suitable one…

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Shalitha Suranga
Shalitha Suranga

Written by Shalitha Suranga

Programmer | Author of Neutralinojs | Technical Writer

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