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Genuine interest and patience. You'll need that to be good at anything. Trite, but so rarely exhibited by the folks in the fast lane.
by hndl 15y ago
Genuine interest and patience. You'll need that to be good at anything. Trite, but so rarely exhibited by the folks in the fast lane.
- meric 15y agoWas about to write the exact comment. Sad to see this at the bottom. Anyone who really wants to be a programmer can be a software engineer, because if you are really interested in programming you spend a lot of time programming and that will be enough to get you an engineer role somewhere. My dad, an MBA, would never admit to it, but I once caught him coding Excel macros. I asked him "Isn't that programming? There's loops, conditions, variables and procedures!" And he goes "I don't program, I automate tasks for moving Excel spreadsheet data into the our data warehouse.". Moral: Not all programmers can be software engineers, you have to be someone interested in programming.
- gruseom 15y agoJerry Weinberg has a concept called "oblivious programming" in which people are writing programs but don't know it. Spreadsheet users are the canonical case of this, which implies there are more oblivious programmers than conscious ones.