How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]

Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by Gonkero on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:36PM (#18742880)

Saying you'll be a better programmer if you just write code is like saying you'll be a better mathematician if you just write more math.

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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by natalyarostova on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:09PM (#18743676)

My math skills improved the most when I stopped obsessing over studying the right things, or finding the right textbooks, and just constantly solved problems.

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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by crooked-v on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:07PM (#18743936)

Being a mathematician and solving already-theoretically-understood math problems are two things that often don't have a lot of overlap.

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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by natalyarostova on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:28PM (#18744022)

Yeah fair.

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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by mixmastamyk on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:48PM (#18742934)

It’s another way to describe practice. Which is correct but not the most compelling of arguments.

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Re:How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso... by sifoobar on Friday December 28, 2018 @05:01PM (#18779808)

Do you have any examples of methods that will get you there more effectively than practice in any discipline? Because I honestly can't think of anything.

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