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You kind of just bang your head against the keyboard until it starts to compile, and run, and stay running … I don’t think I had any programs that could do anyt

by ipnon 4y ago

You kind of just bang your head against the keyboard until it starts to compile, and run, and stay running … I don’t think I had any programs that could do anything for a couple of years, and I couldn’t say I was skilled for more than a decade of full time work. The secret is there is no secret. You keep hacking until suddenly you’re the one doing the answering instead of the asking. If you give up somewhere along the way then you were probably never cut out to be a programmer in the first place.

Jtsummers 4y ago
> You kind of just bang your head against the keyboard until it starts to compile, and run, and stay running I'm glad I learned to program when computer time was costly (at least, for me, in terms of access time not in terms of money). I actually had to think about what I wanted my programs to do, design, consider. Not bash my head against a keyboard and pray like you did. This forced me to develop a model of the computer, language, and operating system that was fairly accurate (to the level of detail I needed at the time).