Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by pcchristie on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:50PM
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How long did it take you to learn what you needed to learn, and how long to "ship" your "product"?
Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by jamesbfb on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:39AM
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IIRC, 3 months to hack together a CRUD like app, another 3 to “ship” the “product”, and yes, quotes very much intended.
I did spend the next year or so adding features, bug fixes, etc. It was very much a case of learning on the job and I was quite fortunate to be in the position that I was. I think it was 2 or 3 years later I managed to land a dev role at Agoda (who had offices in Bangkok at the time)
Yes! I miss it too. For me, that book was Head First PHP & MySQL[0] - Late 2000's, I was living and working in Thailand for a family friends small logistics company in the capacity of a BA, trying to move them into this century. We were trying to find a vendor for any system that would allow us to keep track of the movements of shipping containers within a container yard, and something sparked and I thought "hey, I did a semester of programming at Uni, how hard can it be?!", over the span of the next 6 months or so, this book helped me put together a solution that scarily, they are still using to this day.
Fast-forward 15ish years and here I am, still cutting code, although in the capacity of a dev lead, but after all that, I have the book to thank.
[0]https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-php/97805961...