# Coding habits you should adopt

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> Solving probles requires lots of brainpower and focus. Coding is one of those jobs where you have to mix your creativity with logic. I am sharing some tips on the coding habits you should be developing for better performance

### 1\. Planning the project before coding

**!!!never** rush into coding before planning carefully.

Planning will help you write qualitative code and save you time in the future

### 2\. Write small Single-Purpose methods and test them

Write small functions that perform only one task! This makes the testing and debugging process much simpler and easy to do. Adopt **Clean Code** best practices.

### 3\. Add comments for your future self

This simple habit has been a game-changer for me. For any piece of code, I write **“why”** instead of **“what”** the code does.

### 4\. KEEP LEARNING

This one is one of the reasons why I love Software Engineering. Even though we are masters at some technologies we need to always learn new things to keep up with the industry! Never stop **LEARNING!!**