Then he didn't become a programmer. He became Django programmer.
How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks
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#12Quoting a self-help talking head here:
"It's not important to get things right/perfect. It's important to get things going"
Congratulations and realize that the nth step in learning is realizing that you can always learn more.
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#13Snarky comments making me think people just got annoyed by the title and didn't read the post.
A lot of good advice for people who would like to program rather than be programmed but aren't in a place to take a cs degree.
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#14I highly recommend the O'Reilly School of Technology courses on Python if you are looking to learn Python. They are self-paced, reasonably priced, and provide some great tips on best practices. And the ability to have someone actual give you feedback and test you I find helps me keep moving forward learning to program.
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#15Quoting a self-help talking head here: "It's not important to get things right/perfect. It's important to get things going" Congratulations and realize that the nth step in learning is realizing that you can always learn more.
Thanks, and I agree. All I know is that I know practically nothing.
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#16I think this shows just how much can be achieved if you work hard and give something your absolute focus.
Call him a programmer or not, it seems he has learnt enough to program professionally and by most definitions, that makes him a programmer.
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#17I think this shows just how much can be achieved if you work hard and give something your absolute focus. Call him a programmer or not, it seems he has learnt enough to program professionally and by most definitions, that makes him a programmer.
Thank you.
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#18Hmm, I started programming over a decade and a half ago, writing my own little game engines in dos, and a nice little x-mode GUI. I've worked as the software architect for a moderately popular (top 2000 alexa) social networking websites, I've worked at fortune 500s, I've been on the dev side, the test side, the pm side, and worked as an IC and as a lead/manager. I still don't really consider myself as being anywhere near being complete in the task of becoming a "programmer."
But kudos on taking your first few steps. Its not a bad vocation.
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I'm sorry but you can't become a _programmer_ in 12 weeks. You can become a pretty good code wrangler, you can put togeter a decent website or an application but you still have around 10 more years to go (as shown above/below http://norvig.com/21-days.html ).
Suggesting that it takes ten years to become "a programmer" is absurd. An experienced programmer, perhaps, but as soon as you can write and reason about programs (inferring what they do without a compiler), I would call you a programmer. Whether you're good is another matter, though a talented programmer can outpace one a decade their elder.
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#20I envy that the author learnt programming and web development now as opposed to even a few years ago. Without devolving into "in my day I walked ten miles in the snow just to compile"; it's just so much more pleasant now. Stack Overflow, Heroku (and similar), GitHub, PDF Books. Obviously it takes time and effort to get better everyday but the learning curve is a bit flatter now.