After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by Volscio on Thursday October 03, 2013 @12:54PM (#6490239)

I used to agree with this but what I've seen in practice is a lot of people who have half-assed their way through beginner tutorials but have no actual practical grasp of how to do a non-guided project.

What she's done is pretty difficult -- executing a new concept daily -- and it's amazing she managed to keep it up when most others would drop out/fail.

I personally think "a lot of knowledge" comes through those lost hours spent fixing obscure, annoying problems and bugs and inconsistencies that force someone to really think through how that system works.

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Re:After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Lif... by mooreds on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:21PM (#6490422)

Hmm... I guess I'd say half assing your way through beginner tutorials is better than doing nothing (if it is on the path to your goal). That said, flywheels are slow to start up, and you can't expect to do one or two or ten tutorials and have it spinning fast.

As Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

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