How to be a Ninja Developer - DevFest Punjab 2019

Slides with animations http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb

All the developers used to write code then who is Ninja developer? Why do you consider a person as a Ninja developer? “Because he/she knows a lot of things about development”, you say. How do we know?

Ninja developers are those who just not write the code but do a lot of other activities along with writing code. Be it delivering talks or helping fellow developers over stack overflow and forums or writing blogs. I believe they do it as they believe in “Teach is to learn twice” and that’s how they do these all activities and get to meet a lot of people across the borders, learn from them and explore things together.

Also, Ninja developers are not those who are always on top of technologies, but they are the best developers in the market, who are always ready to work on any tasks assignment, no matter which technology it is, for them what matter is to solve the given problem.

Now in this talk, I have shared his decade long experience being into the IT industry. During the span of this period, he has written 150+ blogs, holding 100,000 reputation points over Stackoverflow, delivered 100+ talks, organized 100+ events, have developed 50+ applications and have managed 10+ products. He will be discussing sharing his experience, ninja practices and the things that we all developers should be doing along with managing regular job and coding.

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1. #DevFestPunjab GDG Jalandhar GDG Chandigarh devfest-punjab.web.app Session on How to be a Ninja Developer
2. Paresh Mayani @pareshmayani How to be a Ninja Developer
3. @pareshmayani
4. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
5. Slides • Slides with GIFs http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb • Speakerdeck (Download PDF) http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb-pdf
6. Wow someone is going to make us Ninja Developer
7. Let’s go and attend to become a Ninja Developer
8. There is no Shortcut!
9. Thank you all for joining my session
10. Thanks I have your attention
11. You mean Ninja?
12. Nope I mean Ninja Developers
13. Ordinary Developers Vs Ninja Developers
14. Ordinary Developers - Learn - Code - Eat - Sleep
15. Ninja Developers - Learn - Code - Network - Share - Communicate - Analysis - Eat - Relax
16. Learn
17. Read Medium Articles - FreeCodeCamp - Mindorks - Hackernoon - DailyJS - Google Developers Experts
18. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
19. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
21. Watch Online Videos And Courses - Udacity - Udemy - Google Developers - LearnWebCode - Akashtips - MTechViral - Smartherd
22. Tip: So Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Qwiklabs - Quests leaders - Learning (Course) + Goodies
23. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Exercise: Join any 1 online course
24. Attend Events - GDG Jalandhar - GDG Chandigarh - Facebook Dev Circle - DevFest - Droidcon India - Wordpress Group - Startup Saturday - eChai Find more on Meetup
25. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Questions: 1. Why do you attend events? 2. How to get most out of events?
26. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
27. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Exercise: Join at least 1 meetup group/community
28. Extra Tips - Be in a group of passionate People - Take part in online forums - Github organisation (Open source)
29. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Attention! You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in the market
30. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning
31. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Make a plan for learning You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in the market - Prepare a list of all topics/things that you want to learn - May be a list of things that you are lagging behind in your domain - Decide the priority of each topics and reset the order - Select top 3 - Make a plan for Learning 1st - Continue until you are done with all 3 things
32. Code
33. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems - Can’t try out all the things in client projects
34. Tip: So Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Have a Pet project - Develop something you are passionate about - To solve problems - Can’t try out all the things in client projects - Side Income
35. Tip: So Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository GDG[X] 1. Hoverboard 2. Aura 3. Chakram
36. Tip: So Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository - Make your own repo
37. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Open Source Contribution - Find open source projects or repository - Make your own repo - Discuss and learn - Help you in building your profile - Career opportunity
38. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Open Source Contribution Career Opportunity
39. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Pair Programming
40. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Peer to peer Code Review
41. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Exercise: - Start following Git flow model - Get your PRs reviewed
42. Network
43. Attend Events Take part in forums - Meet new people - Learn from experts - Discuss with people - Know what they are developing
44. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Exercise: Take selfie with 5 new people and upload over social media and tag them
45. Deliver Talks - Gets you to connect with community members and experts - Teach is to learn twice - More on Slide number 48
46. Share
47. “Teach is to learn twice”
48. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Write blogs/articles - How to start with blogging???? Somewhere you will have to start, right? - Write in parts - Get it reviewed Benefits: - Online friends/followers - Build your own profile - Communication skills improved
49. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Exercise: Write a blog on your #DevFestPunjab experience
50. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs - Lightning talks - Show and Tell - Full length talks - Session in company
51. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me
52. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING
53. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Deliver Talks - Submit CFPs Objection 1: No one wants to listen me Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING Objection 3: Rejection, keep submitting!
55. Communicate
56. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share Daily progress update
57. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update
58. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Daily Status Update Today’s status update: Today’s update: - Worked on X thing - IN PROGRESS - Worked on Y thing - COMPLETED. Hosted on server Plan for tomorrow: - Work on Z thing Blockers/Queries if any - Not any at this moment
59. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Exercise: Start sharing Daily Status Update from tomorrow
60. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Communicate very well - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team - Share daily status update - Share proper commitments - Share concerns at right time - English Communication Skills
61. Analysis
62. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump on the development part
63. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Extra point: - Control your emotions when there is a change in requirement
64. “Change is the only Constant” “Boss (Client) is always right”
65. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Requirement Analysis - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump on the development part - Corner cases and User scenarios - Request for the documentation (SRS, User stories)
66. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Analysis skill - Ask the right questions - Make no assumptions - Realise what you don’t know
67. Eat & Relax
68. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Eat & Relax - Take enough rest - Maintain schedule - Go for walk - Give time for yourself CLEAR OUT CACHE
69. Tip: Follow Writers/experts on Medium, twitter for learning Concluding... - Learn and add at least 1 new skill per year in your resume - Attend at least 1 new course in a quarter - Follow Goal based learning - Keep learning, keep sharing - Meet new people and learn from them - Follow experts over your favorite media - Sharpen your analysis skill - Stay passionate! Save yourself from Back pain
70. Hiring Ninja Developers Simform Solutions https://www.simform.com/careers/ paresh@simformsolutions.com
71. 71 Slides • Slides with GIFs http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb • Speakerdeck (Download PDF) http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb-pdf
72. Thanks Paresh Mayani Practice Head, Simform Solutions @pareshmayani
73. No Q&A