What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn/read?

Re:What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn... by maayank on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:54AM (#2016181)

I just want to single out the ')' at the end of the post, a classic Cheshire Cat smile where you only see immediately his smile but not his face/eyes (i.e. compare with ":)").

If this is a coincidence and you done it by mistake (i.e. mistakenly have not put a ':') then this is one sweet coincidence. If not, then kudos to you :)

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Re:What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn... by plinkplonk on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:02AM (#2016204)

heh I did that deliberately(You can see there is no balancing '(' in the post), but I didn't expect anyone to catch it or even notice it. :-). I was just having some fun.

(For the perplexed) In "Alice In Wonderland" the Cheshire Cat fades away till nothing is left but its grin So I removed the ":-" from ":-)".

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Re:What should a self-taught programmer with no degree learn... by derefr on Monday December 20, 2010 @08:56PM (#2026574)

Note that the ":-" isn't strictly necessary: both Ambrose Bierce and Vladimir Nabokov, independently reflecting on their desires for the addition of a "typographic equivalent to a smile" before one ever existed in popular culture, proposed a simple "supine round bracket" or "\___/".

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