A few days ago, I was frantically styling, and there was a little sister ding me on the nail
I am a person who never refuses people, especially my little sister. So, I accepted an interview. This interview mainly asked 3 questions. The overall original text was posted on the official account of Alibaba Technology, which can be viewed through the portal .
The main problems are the following 3:
Why do programmers need to write? What are the benefits of writing? What are the extra surprises?
Why should I start writing?
After graduating in 2015, I joined Alibaba to engage in back-end development. It was also this year. I wrote my first article. The content was the "face-to-face experience" I summarized after participating in the Alibaba school recruitment. Because at the review stage before looking for a job, I read many interview summaries of other people, which helped me a lot. Writing this article on the one hand wants to make a summary of my school recruitment, on the other hand, I also hope to help others.
Since this article, I have received a lot of comments, and many people have come to me to discuss technology in private, and I find that writing has brought me a lot of fun. Through writing, I can think about myself, summarize myself, and discuss techniques with like-minded friends, so I started to stick to writing.
The content I wrote at the beginning was relatively simple. It was just a summary of some of the problems encountered in my work. Gradually, I began to take the initiative to learn something, and then the content of the article gradually evolved into principle analysis, best practice, etc.
At first, the article was only published on my blog (hollischuang.com). Then by chance, I found that readers on the official account could have more interaction, so I synchronized my article to the official account (Hollis) , Now the official account has accumulated nearly 200,000 readers.
Last year, I also sorted out some of the content I wrote, and published a book "Three Courses for Programmers" with my friends, in which I wrote a lot of my own experience and thoughts.
What are the benefits of writing as a programmer?
Technology improvement
In the process of writing an article, I will find ways to ensure that the content written is correct, so I will consult a lot of materials. In this process, I will learn a lot of knowledge and can improve my technical skills. Especially when writing a series of articles, you can perfect your knowledge system. As the saying goes, "teaching is the best learning."
Constantly correcting errors
No one writes things that are completely right, so sometimes the finished article will receive some different opinions. At this time, you can help yourself correct mistakes and continuously improve yourself.
Help yourself to remember better
Many people will find that there is a phenomenon that a piece of knowledge is forgotten after a while after learning it. Once you have a blog, you can solve this problem, and you can write your knowledge into the blog with your own understanding. On the one hand, you can strengthen your understanding and memory, and it is also convenient for you to look back and review in the future.
Increase personal influence
Because I write by myself, I can greatly enhance my influence in the industry. Because I have written a lot of articles and many programmers have read my articles. I have roughly counted the number of readings of my technical articles on the whole network. There are tens of millions. In recent years, colleagues from the company have often come to me and ask me: Are you Hollis? So you are Hollis? I have read your article and so on.
Help others to be themselves
When I first came into contact with Java, I always wanted to find a learning path, but I never found it, so I used my business time to summarize the learning path of a Java engineer-"The Road to a Java Engineer". This article has now been read by millions of people, and I have received many comments, saying that it is of great help to them. In the past two years, readers have often left messages on my official account and blog background, saying that they have found good news about a job in a major factory and so on because of reading my articles. Seeing that my little effort can help many people, I feel a sense of accomplishment.
What extra surprises does writing bring to you?
Because of writing, I have met many like-minded friends, many of them are programmers, but also authors of professional books and bloggers of well-known blogs. There are also many readers from various Internet companies with different backgrounds. Some of them are big cows with rich work experience. In the process of communicating with them, they can learn a lot by themselves.
Because I have my own blog and official account, and I have accumulated many readers, I can receive a lot of resumes every time I post recruitment information. Recently, I have helped the team recruit several new colleagues. Because my nickname in some recruitment articles is also Hollis, I have met several times. I "hooked up" candidates on the recruitment website and were asked: Do you have an official account?
Because I write a blog and have many readers, editors of publishing houses often find me asking about publishing books. There were friends who found me who wanted to publish a book together. In 2019, I published a book "Three Courses for Programmers" with my friends. After that, I also published many free e-books: "The Soul of Java Development Manual 13 Questions", "The Soul of Java Development Manual 15 Questions", "The Road to a God of Java Engineers-Basics" and so on.
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