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I think this is basically the whole story. I think the fact that I have learned several programming languages (not expert level, but certainly to the point I ca

I think this is basically the whole story. I think the fact that I have learned several programming languages (not expert level, but certainly to the point I can use them to make projects that benefit my life and the lives of others) has fooled me into thinking I should know a lot more about programming than I do. But if I'm honest, what I have essentially done is taken a bunch of 100 level programming courses, just in a variety of languages. I need to spend time studying the more difficult concepts that can be applied to all languages. Thanks for the advice! :)

dossy 7y ago
Language mastery is only a small part of the overall process. You can be fluent in Spanish, but until you've read a lot of Spanish literature and written a lot of questionable quality Spanish prose yourself, you won't be writing any great literary works. Studying the writing of others--particularly the great masters--is one short path to developing that. How much code do you read on a daily basis? A lot of programmers spend time writing a lot of code, but not many spend time reading code: especially really well-written code, or code that solves a problem really elegantly. But, yeah, I think you get the idea...