• friendly_ghost@beehaw.org
    4·
    6 months ago

    As someone who is only a few months into learning to program, I find this perspective very grounding. If I set my expectations appropriately, then I can enjoy the process and not get frustrated with myself that it’s taking “too long.”

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    You’ll teach yourself basic programming in waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less than 10 years, obviously.

    You’ll teach yourself to be a much better programmer in 10 years.

  • bitcrafter@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    What I like to tell people is that I am as good a programmer as I am for the simple reason that I began when I was about 8, which gave me a very early start on making all of the mistakes one can possibly make when learning how to code.

    (It has been funny watching some of my coworkers learn a new coding technique and finding it to be so cool that they apply it everywhere regardless of whether it fits or not while I think to myself, “Ah, I remember when I went through that phase as a teenager!”)

    • loobkoob@kbin.social
      2·
      5 months ago

      (It has been funny watching some of my coworkers learn a new coding technique and finding it to be so cool that they apply it everywhere regardless of whether it fits or not while I think to myself, “Ah, I remember when I went through that phase as a teenager!”)

      I’m not a programmer (although suggestions on a language to start learning with - with no project in mind - would be welcome!), but I’ve found similar things with my old musical projects. I look back some old project files and see that I used various techniques all the time that I don’t necessarily use nowadays. Sometimes, I think I probably should use them more than I do now, but I definitely overused them back then when I first discovered them.

      I guess it’s just exciting when you learn something and it opens up a bunch of possibilities for you!