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Was just about to write a nice comment. Oh well ;) No, but nice article, there are some things I absolutely recognize from my own journey of learning to progr

Was just about to write a nice comment. Oh well ;) No, but nice article, there are some things I absolutely recognize from my own journey of learning to program. I especially went overboard with the "read all the things" mentality and now know a lot from going down the rabbit hole time and time again. You do have to have the free time for it though. Furthermore I'd like to add as something I found really hard to get into is just trying things. Just get the general idea on screen and work to get it to compile, then refactor until satisfied and work out the last kinks. As I would categorize myself as being in the 'perfectionist' category I found it really hard for quite some time (years) to work experimentally like this.

hiphipjorge 10y ago
> You do have to have the free time for it though. OMG! THIS! I don't think I couple have pulled it off if I didn't do this in college/summers when I had all that free time. It would have been impossible otherwise. That might be a valid criticism of my post... it presumes people have a lot of time. > As I would categorize myself as being in the 'perfectionist' category I found it really hard for quite some time (years) to work experimentally like this. Honestly, I think all great programmers are in that category. The bad ones start businesses and then hire great programmers to fix their shitty code.