Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Posted on February 1, 2008 Comments (1)
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig
- Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in ten years.
- Talk to other programmers; read other programs. This is more important than any book or training course.
- Program. The best kind of learning is learning by doing. To put it more technically, “the maximal level of performance for individuals in a given domain is not attained automatically as a function of extended experience, but the level of performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as a result of deliberate efforts to improve.” (p. 366)
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March 19th, 2008 @ 12:30 am
Ten years sounds about right. I’ve been at it 12 or 30 years if you count programming industrial automation. You can code in a few weakes but to truly have fun doing it for 10 or more years. It also is great to be hanging out at conferences and user meetings, it keeps you from getting stale.