Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

[Todd Higgins]

During this turkey inspired holiday I have decided to reinvest myself  
and my money in Revolution.  I updated to 2.61 of the IDE and picked  
up  some Valentina licenses to boot! (Though I'm a little bummed that  
it's not Valentina 2.0 - the documentation and examples are much  
easier to grok)

As I was surfing the web for programming inspiration I found an  
article that has helped me put my learning curve in perspective, and  
I thought I would share it with the list.

http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

With no formal programming experience and no Hypercard background its  
been slow going for me. As a technologist I am very comfortable using  
computers, I can make servers bend to my will for most functions, but  
when it comes to creating something from nothing I am stifled.  I  
feel like I cannot get off the ground floor with anything -  
Applescript, PERL, bash, Revolution,  and I think the reason is  
because I'm rushing it.

Real expertise takes time, even if your chosen programming  
environment promises to save 90% of it : )

Thoughts?

Todd

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Todd Higgins
higginsta at mac.com