Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
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Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#2The most important thing when taking on something new is to start. Even if you only get the basics over a few days, hopefully that can get you far enough down the trail to boost your motivation to learn more.
The "X in Y Days" pattern is just one of many that can pull in interested, but not significantly motivated, readers. The books, then, should be judged on their abilities to give their readers a good kick in the butt ;-)
Instead of solely teaching syntax and methods, these rapid learning books should devote a lot to teaching people "how to learn" and what routes to take to learn the specific language better.
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#3This has been posted multiple times already. We get it - programming is hard.
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#4990 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243
105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#5This has been posted multiple times already. We get it - programming is hard.
According to the quoted sources, anything is hard if you want to do it very well.
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#6990 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243 105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
Is there some time after which the exact same URLs can be resubmitted?
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#7990 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243 105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
The big question: how much have you learned about programming in those 990 days?
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#8990 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243 105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
Is there some time after which the exact same URLs can be resubmitted?
If there is, it's not within 100 days. I'm pretty sure that people are just adding superfluous arguments to the urls they submit.
I think that there is nothing wrong with this for old timeless articles, if done infrequently enough.
Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours
#9990 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243 105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
Is there some time after which the exact same URLs can be resubmitted?
No. You get a new story if no previous one with that url is in memory, which is increasingly likely if it's older. It works surprisingly well in practice.