Better Programmer (Part 03): Give Up doing these 5 things to become a successful MQL5 Programmer

1. Give Up Fighting for the Past.
2. Give Up Not Believing In yourself.
3. Give up the belief that everyone should think like you.
4. Give Up being a Taker and Start Giving.
5. Give Up Trusting Only Yourself.

On your early days of MQL5 programming or even later, you might have created an Expert Advisor (EA), a Library, an Indicator or a piece of code which the majority of your customers gave you negative reviews for.

Or maybe you created an EA or two which had a lot of bugs that caused unwanted trade executions and hence caused you to lose not only your funds but also it destroyed reputation to your customers on the Codebase, Freelance or something. That is bad, to be honest, but it is worse recalling those moments and dwelling your thoughts on them.

Instead of wasting your time recalling those painful moments in your mind, that make you feel a miserable coder, why not use that same amount of time to focus on improving yourself in the areas that you notice you are weak in?

• If you make a lot of bugs then focus on learning how to debug that particular area, or the general debugging principles, if needed.
• Read the documentation on that area and do many practices.
• Ask people on the Forum what might be wrong if you are still not sure.

In coding, I believe, the code itself tells you if you are right or wrong. If it has no bugs, you fully understand it and you know exactly what you want.

If it works the way you want it, then it is very close to being right. The best way to know that it is terribly wrong is to start seeking validation from every programmer (noobs included here) since everybody has their own different way of writing code that leads to the common goal you want to achieve. 

It's the human way to have different opinions and there is nothing wrong with that. So, there is no specific one way to implement something though some ways are better than the others. That's why you have to know what you are implementing and what you want as a result. Do it, then debug it, and test it's effectiveness.

Believing in yourself does not mean not sharing your views on the Forum, just doing everything on your own — no! Don't get me wrong. You only have to know the difference between staying open for new better ideas or just wanting to be validated by professional programmers.

03:  Give up the belief that everyone should code like you

It's unhealthy to expect that everyone should code your way. It's unhealthy to surround yourself with people who think and code like you. If you are a noob and you surround yourself with your fellow noobs, I don't know what to tell you, LOL!

As explained in the previous point, we are humans we have different consciousness, ways of understanding and views towards tackling a certain problem. So don't get discouraged when someone has different view and code than yours, what matters is that you all have the common goal you want to achieve.

If you see someone's code on the forum don't rush explaining your ways of coding but rather provide the solution for the problem he/she is struggling because who knows maybe his coding ways are better to him/her than yours? It's not your job to change all programmers into into generic (non adaptive) robots that stick to the same patterns 24/7 all over the world.

Being different is what makes creativity possible and makes our coding career exciting. 

It's time to stop only consuming code on the codebase and free products on the market, and to start producing stuff to help others just like you were helped when you began coding. 

Share with the world what you have learned and what you already know even when you are still learning it you know what's funny (Professional programmers are good learners, while noobs believe they know it all already).

You will accelerate your learning by putting yourself into the equation. This does not apply to posting codes and products on the markets. I believe it matters so much on the forum, since everybody that's in there is a programmer. Respond to questions that you know answers and pay attention to those you don't. I can't tell you how many professional programmers that I see everyday are actively participating on helping noobs on  the forum (I appreciate that).

05: Give up trusting only yourself