Best ways to resolve programming issues

Are you a software engineer, developer, DevOp, Testing/Automation, Data, or Cloud Engineer? Chances are that you have countless times run into issues while integrating some form of library, a software development kit (SDK) or maybe learning a new framework stumbling your way out of issues as you keep exploring underlying features. This is the most frustrating aspect of problem-solving. Frustrating at times that you would wish you'd never accepted the task or wish to quit right away. Personally, I have come to such a point severally in my career, such that I would wish I did not find myself on that task.

This post is intended to address the recommended way to approach resolving coding-related issues. While coming across issues and bugs is inevitable, it is far more crucial to possess the best tips on how to go about resolving them. In this post, we shall state simple ways of resolving programming-related issues specially tested and trusted by Senior Engineers.

Before we jump on the Strategies, it is crucial to point out one sole factor that causes frustration most times. This is related to the project timeline and delivery. Professionals not only solve the problem on time but also stay out of unprofessional outcomes.

Behavioral Perceptive

1. Take a deep breath, in and out.
2. Do not be frustrated at issues you come across.
3. Stay calm and do not panic.
4. Take it as one of those things that are likely to occur.
5. Maintain your initial mindset and disposition to solving the problem.
6. Take action to resolve the issues.

Best Actions to take to resolve the issues

1. The First action to take is to open and go over the framework’s or library‘s documentation.
2. Look out for official tutorials authored by the framework developers. Some documentation gives the link to tutorial examples on Github.
3. Open up issues in the framework's git repository, and search for that issue or related issues. Try out solutions posted by other users.
4. Still if you can't find a solution try to search through StackOverflow questions related to the framework or language you are working on.
5. Last resort is google. When googling search for status codes and error messages. This points you faster to potential content that has the solution.
6. If you still can not resolve your issue raise it on the framework's repository. It may be a bug that is not been fixed. You need to give it some time for your issue to get responded to byfrom the creators of the framework or the community.
7. Lastly, Contact the creators directly via email to help look into your issue.

Summary

What differentiates professionals from beginners is the way they approach issues. Resolving programming problems is a matter of recognizing patterns. A senior Engineer who has encountered such an issue before easily applies strategies he has used previously to resolve them.
In this post, we have listed the best behavioral and actionable ways to resolve programming issues. This is just the basic but foundational pattern to resolving your code-related issue professionally.
Again, this post intends to encourage you to learn from the previous issues you resolved and apply them to new ones you come across professionally.
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