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rampionSamuel Johnson thought it took longer than ten years: "Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price." And Chaucer complained "the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
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16 Dec 07
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Work on projects after other programmers. Be involved in understanding a program written by someone else.
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but the level of performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as a result of deliberate efforts to improve.
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Talk to other programmers; read other programs
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Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in ten years.
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if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using Pascal syntax, but you couldn't learn what Pascal is actually good (and bad) for.
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time to work with an experienced programmer and understand what it is like to live in that environment
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n 3 days you won't have time to write several significant programs, and learn from your successes and failures with them.
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15 Dec 07
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