Re:Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?
by el_benhameen on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:38PM
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I will second reading “Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years”. I’m a self-taught programmer working with a lot of very smart CS grads, so I constantly find myself thinking that I’m not fast or good enough to keep cutting it. I remind myself of that essay very frequently to help with those feelings. It takes a long time to get _good_ at a skill like this, and you will always be behind someone else in that progression. The key is to find joy in the process and remember that it’s a long road.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?
by Izkata on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:58PM
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> I’m a self-taught programmer working with a lot of very smart CS grads, so I constantly find myself thinking that I’m not fast or good enough to keep cutting it.
I'm just gonna throw my experiences out here: I'm self-taught who then got a BS in CS, and day-to-day, the vast majority of the skills I use are the ones I started developing before college. The CS knowledge is something that is extremely useful, but it's not a day-to-day thing - it's more like, it pops up in special circumstances, and the degree never really touched on the self-taught things.