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It takes 10 years to master programming, but 24 is not too late at all. I know a lot of people that started in their twenties and now are good programmers. My
by antirez 17y ago
It takes 10 years to master programming, but 24 is not too late at all. I know a lot of people that started in their twenties and now are good programmers.
My problem instead starts to be how much time I can continue to do programming for work. I'm 32, it seems fair to me to continue for another 10 years, but should I switch at some point? My dream is to turn myself into a teacher around 45 opening a programming school, but probably children can learn faster just by internet than with an old teacher ;)
- kingkongreveng_ 17y agoI'd say it takes just a year of solid effort to get good at cranking out quality code on a platform. What takes years is learning how to quickly diagnose and attack bugs, develop instincts for what tools will be appropriate or suck, smell when a subsystem should just be scrapped and rewritten, etc.
- donaldc 17y agoMy problem instead starts to be how much time I can continue to do programming for work. I'd assume you can continue until you no longer find it interesting...