| Tip 10 | Speak Your Language Fluently |
 | [White Belt] You get paid to tell the computer what to do, so you’d best tell it as effectively as possible. |
As programmers, we are translators in a way: we take a description of a program expressed in human languages and translate it to a real program expressed in a programming language. Translators must be fluent in both languages to be effective.
Fluency in programming languages is somewhat ill-defined, however. Many books purport to teach you, for example, Java in 21 days. I’ve even seen one that claims to teach Java in 24 hours. Perhaps you could learn the syntax of Java and some of its library calls, but ...
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