How to become a great coder in 30 years

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3 points·frisco··3 comments

This kind of assumes that the person in question is, in fact, a great coder. I've met people who claim to hve 30 years experience, but in fact have one year's experience 30 times over.

I'm not saying he isn't a great coder, but evidence would be nice.

Hmm, my point in writing that page was not to say that I am a great coder... The idea was to explain to people one path they might take to learn computer programming. People always ask me how to become a computer programmer. I just thought I'd spell it out. Who cares what kind of coder =I= am.

By the way, I didn't submit that thing to here. And I don't know who did. Nor did I even know here existed.

Enough bout that. I've got a midi sequencer to write.

...Steve

Steve, it's a thoroughly delightful story. I read the whole thing (well, I did skim a couple places - I've got work to do), identified with large stretches of it and enjoyed all of it. It captures the feeling of being completely enraptured with computers when you're a kid. Brought back some memories for me.

"Here" has been slow lately. I'm glad somebody posted your thing.

By the way: why on earth wouldn't you put this stuff on your resume? Don't you know there are employers out there who actually get what it means to be a born programmer, which you obviously are? Not everything out there is Oracle Forms - even within your 15 minute commute. Raise your goddamn standards :)

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