tips - learn programming faster and effectively

How to learn programming effectively- tips for developing programming skills

Tip1 : Have detail knowledge of following and practice them in your favorite programming language

• Design Patterns / Anti Patterns
• UML
• OOAD

Tip2 : Participate in Online/offline coding contests : develop your programming logics

• codingbat.com
• betterprogrammer.com
• catcoder.catalyst.cc
• codechef.com

Tip3 : Create your own Blog - blogger.com or wordpress.com

• Write about new things you learn today
• publish your code snippets, ideas, participate in discussion with your blog reader

Tip4 : Read Tech-articles regularly

Tip5 : Participate on QA, Discussion forum

• Create your account on stackoverflow.com  today. It is the best site for QA
• read the most voted questions in stackoverflow