Achieving speed in a programming environment

Question

I am not a complete software guy. In fact, over the past ten years, 90% of my work was either on hardware or on low-level (embedded) code.

But the remaining 10% is related to writing shell scripts for development tools, making changes to the kernel to add special features, and writing graphical applications for end users.

The problem is that I have found that I am facing significant obvious flaws in my knowledge, often because it has been many years since I did "X" and I either forgot or changed the environment.

Each time, so often on TheDailyWTF.com there are streams along the lines of "WTF: the guy wrote tons of code all day, when he could call foobar () in the baz library." I was there myself, because I don’t remember much outside #include <stdio.h> (for example), and my quick search somehow missed the right library.

What methods did you find effective for crash training and / or crash updates in a programming environment that you rarely touch?

Answer 1

• Ask the developers that you know that you work in an environment that interests you.
• Searching the internet a lot.
• Ask specific questions in the appropriate IRC channels (Freenode is excellent).
• Ask specific questions about StackOverflow and other sites.

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Of course, a regular google / SO / forums search is useful before you do something new, but invest more than just wasting time on my opinion if you don't want to spend time on a fun or general education ... :), but this is another story. By the way, I am in the same position and for the last time I need some kind of graphical interface and used MFC (because I used it sometimes 10 years ago :)), and I perfectly understand that I will probably get better results with C # and friends, but learning the curve just doesn’t justify it, especially knowing that I need to mix C code with a GUI.