> 10 years is not to "teach yourself programming," it's to "become an expert in programming." I've been programming for a lot more than 10 years, and would bar

> 10 years is not to "teach yourself programming," it's to "become an expert in programming." I've been programming for a lot more than 10 years, and would barely call myself an expert on anything. 10 years is a decent amount of time to learn to be a decent programmer. As a rule of thumb at least.