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While we're on the topic, one of my favorite blog posts of all time is his "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html https:/
by user3939382 5y ago
While we're on the topic, one of my favorite blog posts of all time is his "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"
https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
- nekopa 5y agoIt's funny you mention this, as there is a big thread above that discusses his contribution to learning by reading, and his second point here is "Program. The best type of learning is learning by doing".
- crazy5sheep 5y agoSame here, I was inspired a lot by this post all these years. I really want to take this chance to say than you to Peter.
- ineedasername 5y agoin Ten Years That sounds about right. Whenever I have to revisit code I wrote more than 3+ years ago I tend to think "Why the hell did I do it that way?" Occasionally, now knowing the trend, I'll even comment in an apology to my future self. When I encounter those past comments my general sentiment is something like "yeah, thanks for the spaghetti asshole, would half a day to clean this up have really been so hard?" And sometimes I remember the circumstances of that spaghetti, boiled around 2:00 AM, and remember "nope, wasn't time". Even though now I can do it better and faster.