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Don't wait until next year. Start programming now. School is good to learn computer science; school is not needed to learn how to program. Don't read anything
by javert 12y ago
Don't wait until next year. Start programming now. School is good to learn computer science; school is not needed to learn how to program.
Don't read anything into the 5 lines of code per day. This is a pretty old article and even then, that would only be a reasonable figure if you take a large number of people on a large project and compute an average for everyone. In other words, counting refactoring, fixing bugs, re-writing things, doing administrative work, and so on towards the time elapsed. And even then it would vary so much from one project to the next that you couldn't get a reasonable representative number, though 5 LOC per day would certainly be possible.
- jebediah 12y agoI have already started programming, it is just that all the problem sets I have solved were easy enough that I could get to coding right away, and when I couldn't I just thought I was dumb
- javert 12y agoDon't ever let yourself think you are dumb. It's a lot more harmful to your psychology and to learning than it may at frist appear. If you can't figure something out, you are just lacking some knowledge you need. I wish I had learned that a long time ago. Being dumb is never the explanation for not understanding or figuring out something.