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Depending on where someone is is where I would advise people... One of the issues I've seen with CS students is simple inexperience. They simply did not have e
by pnathan 15y ago
Depending on where someone is is where I would advise people...
One of the issues I've seen with CS students is simple inexperience. They simply did not have experience coding outside of the simple assignments they were handed. They, consequently, were largely bad at programming.
My single piece of advise to early CS students who want to get better but haven't really hit their stride yet is to code. Write and maintain a program that is over 5KLoC. Keep coding. And code some more. You have to have a base of experience, or all the sage advise will go over your head like a smell in the wind. :-)
- sumukh1 15y agoI agree. The base of experience is super important, otherwise you're going to Struggling. I learnt the most from a project that was 25KLoC, than I did from a bunch of small projects.
- jseliger 15y agoI'm not a programmer / hacker, but this is almost exactly the advice I give to people who say they want to be writers. If you want to be a writer... write. A lot. And not just assignments you're given in school: those simply aren't hard enough, and you'll be outcompeted, artistically and otherwise, by people who do more. There is no speed limit: http://sivers.org/kimo http://sivers.org/kimo .