Good article! Especially this advice: > If you are in high school or college, I would highly recommend using free/cheap online resources to get comfortable wit

Good article! Especially this advice: > If you are in high school or college, I would highly recommend using free/cheap online resources to get comfortable with programming languages and concepts, and then take some Computer Science courses to learn fundamentals and formalize your knowledge However > For all of the hardcore Web 1.0 programmers who say “Don’t Learn to Code”[...] I'll leave aside the weird "Web 1.0" "hardcore" qualifiers (seriously, what's up with that?), but note that it links to Norvig's "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" piece. Why, may I ask? Is Norvig discouraging the reader from attempting to become a programmer? Of course not. All he's saying is that if you want to get good at it, you have to put in lots of effort for a long time. That's how you get good at anything. I mean, take the guitar for example. Nobody's going to question that it takes daily hours of practice, sweat and blood (literally, you'll bleed from your fingers) to become a guitarist. So why does programming have to be any different?