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Among the best lessons that I received from a music professor, there was one query which he once posed to the class that I think added value to us: “You know, how good would you be if you did everything your teacher told you to do?” It sounded nearly silly at first hearing because once people are skilled in something, they begin to appreciate ones that work and fail in it. Of course, efficient habits and accurate execution are themselves a part of intuition.
Of course, he did not advocate following the instruction blindly. From personal experience, most of us tend to not implement the basic practices as well as we ought to do. The major reason for doing such is simply laziness. The basics are very hard work, and they are in no way glamorous compared to the sexier parts of the craft one can do. Consider, for example, the metaphor of constructing a skyscraper—would you rather build the foundation or design the penthouse? And foundations are often overlooked until something goes wrong and the whole structure comes crashing to the ground.

The Foundations
In this manuscript, I thought it would be nice to linger on my impressions on the “foundations” of software construction. These are most applicable to tech, but I guess they would apply pretty much to anything across the board, especially in professions. These are just Notes on the Basics:
Every supposition ensures it is questioned easy to get misled by making things up “precisely because they are so obvious. However, effective problem solving is starting asking the question of those assumptions. When a foundational assumption is wrong, everything that comes after is also wrong.
For instance, one project I was working on with my team toward aligning software deployment with the best practices of the industry was brought under the authority of project managers who had defined terms in a way so alien to customary standards. Had I assumed them to be the usual meanings, I would have lost some vital prerequisites.
Look up every term you don’t get Whenever you come across anything that you do not understand or anything there is always a temptation to just trash or pass without bothering since it might be trivial and one will be thinking that they can understand more about it later. However, how do you know that this is the case? It could be that taking a few moments to look up some information can make you see things in an entirely different light.
When I had first started learning of object-oriented programming, I thought I had it down: I only heard that everything is an object. But it wasn’t until I took the time to delve into the material that my learning slid deep down, behind the principles. That knowing has helped me to utilize the object-oriented concepts better.
Proviso: Verify the authenticity of your references inasmuch as all information is not of the same quality. You may be tempted to turn to the forums or those random bloggers for answers purely because a dabble review would reveal the truth in their story.
A useful example of this would be the time I tried looking out for the implementation source of RFC 4122 compliant UUIDs. Many developers referred me to using third-party libraries, but on checking the official doc, I found out that the language I was using had built-in functionality to provide UUIDs.
“Write Everything Down-or Better: Yet, Note Down More of It.” It may seem old-fashioned, but note-taking does have a phenomenal value. When you write down your thoughts, ideas, and insights either in a notebook or digitally, you create a great resource to refer to it later very quickly. Absorb more, and save yourself time in the long run.
I have a tradition of jotting down the simplest things-including how I choose what configurations to apply in taking a decision. But along the way, I discovered that these notes not only help me learn better but are also a go-to for resource-sharing.them with others.
Test Everything You Build – No Exceptions Testing seems like a thing you just might want to forego when such much trust happens within your power domain: all that will be working on paper. But testing is where you’ll discover such things you have overlooked. Because a perfect functioning system high; is disturbed by a missing thing like edge cases or rarely touched-on uncommon inputs.
On previous work of payload response testing for nested data structures, I also remember initially concentrating on the simpler cases, but a prosperous amount of testing suggested other structural possibilities for unexpected data to exist. The absence of the investigation could have caused a failure in its production.
The Importance of Basics
My tasks have shown me that these basics themselves help to improve the overall quality of my work. They have actually led me to contemplate even more challenging problems as I improve them. None of these projects I do now would exist without a solid foundation on that grounding.
Technology companies attribute their successes to always getting the best out of their resources by incorporating state-of-the-art technologies. No cutting-edge technology will solve every problem, for example, no generative AI-the most promising of the new tools will be effective when supported by the basics.
In almost every work, no matter the field, the most of what you do with such work is more about the skill level than any particular knowledge. I really like the Pareto Principle (also called the 80/20 Rule): For example, 20% of what you do accounts for 80% of what you get.
An individual currently posited as my mentor often puts it this way: ‘Mastery is just really refined basics’. Towards that kind of mastery, then, the way isn’t ignored for a gamut of bells and whistles just as the assumed little are those basics which can make a difference.