how to keep your skills up to date.

how to keep your skills up to date.

1. You need a plan.

You need to develop your own plan for how you are going to advance your career and keep your skills up to date.

2. Reading Blogs

By reading other software developer’s blogs, you gain insights into what is new and what is important in the programming community, and you might even learn a thing or two as well.

3. Reading Books

Reading that many books each year ensured that your skills were constantly up to date and that you were improving as a technical professional.

By read books on new technologies, make sure if you do, you should spend time actually learning by doing, not just reading.

4. Picking A New Thing To Learn. Always be learning something new.

don’t learn things you aren’t ever going to use. ?

5. Learning Quickly

you need to develop a system for learning quickly.

6. Attending Events

You can spend a day at an event, watch a few presentations and gain a really good understanding of how a new technology or tool works or how it can be applied, without having to read a whole book or slog your way through tutorials.

7. Code—A Lot

you should always have some kind of side project you are working on. The more you code, the less likely your coding skills will become rusty. Just make sure that the projects are small enough that you actually complete them.

8. Don’t Get Too Comfortable

Remember, no matter how secure you might feel in your current job or environment, it’s important to not get too comfortable.