I found an interesting article where the author (Peter Norvig) complains about book titles that promise to teach programming in 24 hours, 7 days, 21 days, etc. He makes a really good point which is that it usually does take several years to become skilled as a programmer. However, in my own experience it doesn't even take a single day to learn enough programming to have fun doing it. Many of my readers will certainly agree with me when I say that doing it for fun is reason enough. If it isn't fun, you're probably not ever going to be any good at it. ;-)
For the curious, here's the link to his article: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Monday, March 27, 2006
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Just to follow up on my own post, Mr. Norvig does mention in his article that the learner should try to have fun, and that this is an important ingredient. :-)
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