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One should probably keep visiting this page like every 6 months or so - just to check whether you are on the right track to learning.
Self-teaching programmer here. Extensive IT background, and have had a CS class or two in public "B School" type university. After Codecademy, Learn x the hard way a little bit, and even command line hacking with REPL's I have been able to conquer my fear of the abstraction layer. And although I am able to look at programs that exist and I use from a programmer's mindset, I still can not understand how to model my id…
This is how I do it. I just started working with python about 3-4 weeks ago. No experience other than html, css3 and graphic design. So I started doing some online classes but they were so boring and simple that I finished them within a day or two. I actually started doing Udacity's CS class when they teach you how to design a search engine, however half way through I realized that this can be done twice as faster wi…
Self-teaching programmer here. Extensive IT background, and have had a CS class or two in public "B School" type university. After Codecademy, Learn x the hard way a little bit, and even command line hacking with REPL's I have been able to conquer my fear of the abstraction layer. And although I am able to look at programs that exist and I use from a programmer's mindset, I still can not understand how to model my id…
This is how I do it. I just started working with python about 3-4 weeks ago. No experience other than html, css3 and graphic design. So I started doing some online classes but they were so boring and simple that I finished them within a day or two. I actually started doing Udacity's CS class when they teach you how to design a search engine, however half way through I realized that this can be done twice as faster wi…
I may be misinterpreting your claim, but they're not trying to teach you how to quickly build a search engine. They're introducing fundamental concepts of computer science and showing their applications via a search engine.
Right so, do we get to shrug off people with less than 10 years experience? Sure would end a lot of arguments.
[1]: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi...
I started at age 7. I'm 34 now. Still learning, and still feeling like a noob. Can't get enough of this, though.
In fact having basic prompts whit told the user what the next input was was an innovation I refactored some of the senior guys code to add prompts he was a bit sniffy.
"i know what to type when " which is ok for an experiment at 3 foot scale but scaled up to 1:1 where filling the rigs tank cost 20K (about 1/2 the cost of a house at the time) making sure you didn't blow a run was more important.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a very old article. 10.000 hours originates from this article. It's the original.
I believe Malcolm Gladwell was the guy who came up with the "10,000 hour rule". [1] Norvig's article actually quotes Gladwell as the source of the 'rule'. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)