How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks

Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks by cmagahern on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @11:14PM (#3273034)

I don't think he was trying to be insulting. From what I gather, he was trying to justify the negativity theme in the comments for this post, which was the subject of the original comment. I agree that the blog post was not detailed enough, and didn't talk enough about HOW you became a programmer in 12 weeks.

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Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks by mattdeboard on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @11:19PM (#3273052)

What kind of information do you mean? I programmed, asked questions, programmed, read source code, and programmed. There's zero magic. I learned in the same way all human beings learn.

We're knowledge workers. I gained enough programming knowledge to be a programmer. Where's the confusion?

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Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks by kristiandupont on Thursday November 24, 2011 @10:54AM (#3274628)

Being a programmer myself, this is a bit theoretical but I think if I wasn't and I sat down to read an article names "How I became a Programmer", I would expect a couple of pointers to where to start, what to do and how to do it.

Besides from the point about learning a language rather than a framework, your post mostly says "It took me 12 week to learn programming" and that the way to do it is the obvious: read stuff, try stuff etc.

There is nothing wrong with this of course, but given the headline, especially here on HN, I can see why some might feel that they didn't quite get their money's worth.

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Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks by mattdeboard on Thursday November 24, 2011 @04:36PM (#3275467)

Judging by the huge volume of emails and comments on the blog, retweets and all that good stuff the article generated, I feel pretty good about the article

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Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks by yelsgib on Thursday November 24, 2011 @01:02AM (#3273332)

Where's the content?

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Re:How I Became a Programmer in ~12 Weeks by bretthoerner on Thursday November 24, 2011 @07:59AM (#3274170)

Did you read the article?

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