Re:What You Believe Affects What You Achieve
by mercer on Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:37PM
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Some people can never be good singers, because they're tone deaf. Or mute. Blind people, with perhaps a few exceptional, uh, exceptions, can never be good basketball players. People with exceptionally low can never be programmers.
On the other side are the virtuoso's. People who not just through training, but innate ability are at the top of their field.
The rest of us are somewhere in between.
It strikes me as downright ridiculous that there's an infinite ascent to becoming a better programmer, considering that it's trivial to think of examples of people who cannot even master the basics.
I think anecdata in this case doesn't quite cut it.
That said, I very much applaud the sentiment of your message, as I think a lot of people err on the side of thinking that they are innately incapable while diligent practice and learning might get them quite far.
But that doesn't change the, in my opinion, completely sensible observation that some people are just not cut out to be great programmers. Programming is difficult!
On the other side are the virtuoso's. People who not just through training, but innate ability are at the top of their field.
The rest of us are somewhere in between.
It strikes me as downright ridiculous that there's an infinite ascent to becoming a better programmer, considering that it's trivial to think of examples of people who cannot even master the basics.
I think anecdata in this case doesn't quite cut it.
That said, I very much applaud the sentiment of your message, as I think a lot of people err on the side of thinking that they are innately incapable while diligent practice and learning might get them quite far.
But that doesn't change the, in my opinion, completely sensible observation that some people are just not cut out to be great programmers. Programming is difficult!