Mental Training for the developer is a set of practices aimed at training mental skills that can help programmers do their job better. It is a way to improve the cognitive, emotional and social aspects of a software developer's working life. This is especially important today as new challenges and opportunities are being posed by the latest generative AI-based tools such as Bard and ChatGPT.
As software development becomes increasingly complex and challenging, mind training increasingly ranks as an essential part of a programmer's toolbox to enhance well-being, reduce stress, improve concentration, eliminate distractions, improve creativity and the ability to solve problems.
In this course, the teacher will guide you with information and practical tools to take your mental skills to the next level and increase well-being and performance as a developer. The contents are structured in easy-to-read sections, with a theoretical part and exercises to immediately put the concepts into practice. In the introductory part you will find a presentation by the teacher and an overview of the contents. In the next one you will find out which mental abilities are involved in the developer's performance, the theory that explains them, the application implications and intervention strategies. At the end of this part you will be provided with a diagnostic tool with which you will find out which mental abilities you have with the greatest room for improvement. This indication will be useful for planning a personalized training of your mental abilities. You will then continue in the section on training techniques, for each of which you will be provided with an explanation and the guided procedure to put it into practice. In the final section you will find some indications on how to continue your training profitably and independently.