Tricks to Enhance Your Coding Skills: Know How to Make Coding Faster and Easier
Tags: codenewbie, codequality
Published: 2020-05-07 06:48:44

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In today's fastest-growing world, it becomes vital for every individual to focus on improving their skills and knowledge continuously, and mobile app developers are not exceptional ones. Any developers must always look forward to enhancing their programming skills and knowledge, they need to make sure to learn new tools and techniques which can help them to enhance their coding skills to a great extent.

According to an [DC report](https://evansdata.com/press/viewRelease.php?pressID=268), more than 23 million software developers are present globally, this number is estimated to grow by 27.7 million by 2023. This number is quite enough to represent how tough the competition is in the development market. Thus it becomes vital for developers to differentiate themself from other developers in the market by learning to improve their programming skills and knowledge in less time.

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## VSCode Shortcuts: Explore to Learn How it Enhances Your Coding Skills
[Gartner's report](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-10-17-gartner-says-global-it-spending-to-grow-3-2-percent-in-2019) represents that IT spending globally has reached around $3.8 trillion in total during 2019, this simply indicated the increase of 3.2% from 2018 as the spending was around $3.7 trillion in 2018. There is a great demand for developers as more and more organizations and entrepreneurs are opting for the app solution process, they prefer to hire an experienced and dedicated professional who poses enough skills and knowledge to address all their project development in the most accurate way. Thus developers need to make sure that they put efforts to enhance their development skills and knowledge to a great extent.

Nowadays, the whole world is becoming connected as more and more technology is evolving at the fast pack, therefore developers need to consider looking into effective tricks that can help them to enhance their ability by learning and adapting modern tactics. Any professional developers know it well how important it is to enhance their programming skills and knowledge. They can consider paying attention to VSCode to improve their coding and development task, this can also help them to complete the assigned task on the deadline. Explore to know how VSCode can help you to be more productive in your development task.

### Join Line
Many times it becomes mandatory for developers to join two or more lines while performing some tasks. Thus they can make use of VSCode to join two or more lines, developers might consider the following for joining the lines as per their need.

<b>For Mac:</b> Ctrl+J
<b>For Ubuntu and Windows:</b> First of all, open the keyboard shortcuts, click on File, Preferences, Keyboard shortcuts, and bind editor.action to join multiple lines of your choice.
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## Search Text Through Numerous Files At Same Time
One of the most used VSCode by developers is the code, which can help them to search text through numerous files at the same time. Grasping knowledge related to this VsCode can help them to enhance their ability to search matching text throughout their file that also without putting a lot of effort on the same. To leverage these advanced features, developers can simply press <b>Ctrl + Shift + F</b>. A sidebar will pop up on your screen once you press the VSCode and type the word that you want to search throughout the file.

### Code Formatting
This VSCode shortcut helps developers to indent their code, which they have written for developing any of the projects. For example, if they have written code for [gojek clone](https://www.elluminatiinc.com/gojek-clone/) and want to format it perfectly, then they can easily do that using the VSCode for code formatting. When it comes to code formatting then developers can use some of the specific shortcuts which can help them with the same work, explore the shortcut below:

<b>For Windows:</b> Shift + Alt + F
<b>For Mac:</b> Shift + Option + F
<b>For Ubuntu:</b> Ctrl + Shift + I

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Developers can also make some of the settings to enable white-space trimming, they need to consider some of the steps for doing the same:
<b>Step1:</b> Go to VS User Settings, click on preferences, settings, user settings tab.
<b>Step2:</b> Hit on the {} icon, when you will click on its window will pop up on your screen.
<b>Step3:</b> Now add "files.trim trailing white-space": true. Make the necessary setting in the document which is already available there.
<b>Step4</b>: Save all the changes which you made in the file.

Developers can add new commands to trigger the manual process.
### Code Folding
When the file is too large, then it becomes essential for developers to fold it to understand it completely in a better manner, and when it comes to two coding files folding, then code folding grasps the spotlight.
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There are various shortcuts which developers must consider for the innermost uncollapsed and collapsed region at the cursor, explore below to know how uncollapsed and collapsed shortcuts differ from each other:

#### VSCode for uncollapsed cursor:
<b>For Windows and Ubuntu:</b> Ctrl + Shift + [
<b>For Mac:</b> Command+ Option + [

#### VSCode for the collapsed cursor:
<b>For Windows and Ubuntu:</b> Ctrl + Shift + ]
<b>For Mac:</b> Command+ Option + ]

### Split Editor
Sometimes it becomes essential to split the editors into two different modes, thus when it comes to splitting the editor, then developers can make use of the split editor command. 123 is considered as an original keyboard shortcut when it comes to a split editor, but there are many other ways and shortcuts to do the same. Split editing can prove to be very beneficial for the developers as it allows them to edit in various slides side by side.

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Developers can make use of keybindings to split the editor and work in each simultaneously. They can hit on File, Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, and can edit the blinding as per their project requirement. They can even make use of VSCode to split the editor as per their convenience.

<b>For Windows:</b> Shift + Alt + \ or 2,3,4
<b>For Mac:</b> Command + \ or 2,3,4
<b>For Ubuntu:</b> Shift + Alt + \ or 2,3,4

### Interchange Tabs
Many a time, developers just hit on the wrong tab while working on any of the projects, this might waste their valuable time. Even shifting to move clicks and keyboards can also prove to be a time-consuming task for the developers, thus they can make use of VSCode to interchange the tab as per developer's needs. They can shift their tabs easily without the help of more by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Right Arrow, this will help them to move the tab in the right position, while Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow to move their tab the left position.

##Ending Note
There are no specific secrets that might help you to become a successful programmer. You need to put your efforts to learn new skills and develop your programming skills and knowledge, this is the only way to become a successful programmer in less time. You can consider various tactics and tricks to perform all the coding tasks in a much easier and faster way. Make sure to use shortcuts and other tools which ease your coding process and help you to generate more in less time.