Printed in full color.For this new edition of the best-selling Learn to Program, Chris Pine has taken a good thing and made it even better. First, he used the feedback from hundreds of reader e-mails to update the content and make it even clearer. Second, he updated the examples in the book to use the latest stable version of R
Without proper writing and creativity habits, you will never benefit from a neverending pool of writing ideas. But this is okay, it takes time to build your writer systems.
Don’t know how you manage your ideas, but here’s what I do:
OK, let’s jump to the ideas now. Are you ready?
Provide actionable advice and share with others the things you had learned so far. Explain situations and how you managed them.
Don’t share too much, nobody has to read about your bed adventures unless you wanna write that type of content.
Linking your top-performing post and explaining why it had success is always useful for both you and others.
Other writers get the chance to learn new things, while you get the occasion to perform an in-depth analysis and to discover the reason it performed, so you can reproduce the success.
Speaking of top-performing articles, here’s mine:
Don’t brag about your results, provide valuable information instead.
Your customers want rock-solid, bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they can't always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. You need Cucumber: a testing, communication, and requirements tool-all rolled into one. All the code in this book is updated for Cucumber 2.4,
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