Is blogging important for programmers?

Author: Huang Sunting
Link : https://www.zhihu.com/question/273631529/answer/370251965
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"Writing is a cache of thinking."

I don't know where to read a sentence, and it was a hit at first sight, so I used it as an introduction to my own column "The Stupid Programmer". I think writing blogs/articles/answers is a huge help in your own growth, not just for programmers, but for anyone eager to improve. There is no need to force the frequency and quantity. If you have something to say, you can write it down. If you have nothing to do, take a break. Because the moment you keep writing, you start to benefit.

I myself only developed the habit of writing articles after I entered university. At the beginning, I wrote in QQ space, and I wrote nifty jokes, blogging friends laughed, and cheated a few likes. Sometimes I even sneak in to see how many likes I have. Later, I began to write my own experience of learning Japanese, and the article was more inclined to study notes and summaries. After graduating, I worked as a translator for more than a year. Due to the relatively regular (kong) law (xian) of the work, I began to publish Japanese and English related articles in Jianshu. Unconsciously, I also wrote nearly 16w words. When I saw this number, I was surprised. I write because it makes me happy, and I simply enjoy the process of putting my thoughts into words and sharing them with others. Instead of trying to achieve a "milestone" in a certain sense like Space Lie Zan did, he really used words as a cache of his own thinking.

The benefits of blogging/articles for me are obvious:

Makes my thinking clearer and my presentation more organized

I'm not a very structured person in my life and often jump to another thing as I talk. Or, while talking, when he realizes that his logic is wrong, he overthrows himself halfway through. Talking to me can be tiring at times. However, once my ideas are put into words, they are generally very organized and easy to understand. I think this is due to my habit of sticking to writing.

Writing articles is often taught yourself!

It's funny, my situation is often that when I'm half-understood and ready to write a few words, I realize that there are so many vague places in my previous understanding of a certain knowledge point. Those details are like small stones hiding in the dark, and above my head is a yellow oil lamp the size of a bean. In the process of organizing the article, I suddenly found that the aperture that I can see is only a place with a radius of less than one meter centered on myself...

But in order to pretend, I had to bite the bullet and check the information. In the process, the gains are enormous. In addition, in order for readers to better understand the points of these blog posts, I must add my own understanding and make the wonderful insights of each blog post merge into each other. I also have to consider the order in which the content is arranged, so that the knowledge points transition smoothly so that it is easier for everyone to accept.

A knowledge point will be truly mastered in only two cases:

①Practice gives true knowledge. ② Church a person who does not understand.

Make my knowledge system more complete and clear

I didn't feel that way in junior high school, or even in college. It is for each knowledge point, as if like a small object, I naturally know which locker they should be in. When chatting with others about a certain technology, I can clearly transfer the knowledge point of this piece from a certain numbered locker, and the new experience and insights generated during the discussion will be assigned to others in the future. in the locker. This feeling is really wonderful. Compared to before, I felt as if I was floating from the center of a maze, and what I could see was no longer the front and rear directions, but the whole view of the entire maze.

For the above reasons, I encourage every friend to start the habit of learning to write blogs/articles today. It made me realize what "giving is more rewarding than getting".

Some things are like this: people who have practiced it will never tire of it after tasting the sweetness, and they will work harder and harder; people who have not done it think it is too exaggerated, so they never try it from beginning to end. Since he didn't try it, it was impossible to appreciate its benefits, which in turn verified his hypothesis: it was indeed fake and not worth a try.

By the way, it is not necessary to write a blog that is published, and it is also a good habit to record it casually. The debug documentation I organized myself saved me a lot of time~

Is blogging important for programmers?

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