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I started programming at the age of 8, I am now 50. The first thing to ask yourself is weather you can sit down and consternate for 10-12 hours without talking
by streetcat1 5y ago
I started programming at the age of 8, I am now 50.
The first thing to ask yourself is weather you can sit down and consternate for 10-12 hours without talking to anyone.
Second you should practice (not unlike practicing for a marathon) . Start easy and go up.
Third, try to become apprentice to some professional programmer, and learn from him (even for free), try to help him with some tasks.
- eigenhombre 5y agoProgramming for 40 years, professionally for more than half that. I don't, as a rule, "concentrate for 10-12 hours without talking to anyone." Nor do I see the best coding from people who do that. Most programming as I have experienced it is a mix of solitary and social skills, and there is room in the profession for a fairly wide range of weightings of the two of those. The apprentice idea is interesting. I don't know anyone who has done that formally with just a single teaching individual, but the companies I've worked at definitely value senior developers who can mentor and teach, so maybe the apprenticeship model is actually there already, hiding in plain sight.