Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours

Teach Yourself Programming in 10,000 Hours(norvig.com)

27 points by douglasputnam 16 years ago | 7 comments

frederickcook 16 years ago |

990 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243

105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176

nostrademons 16 years ago | |

The big question: how much have you learned about programming in those 990 days?

mhb 16 years ago | |

Is there some time after which the exact same URLs can be resubmitted?

pg 16 years ago | | |

No. You get a new story if no previous one with that url is in memory, which is increasingly likely if it's older. It works surprisingly well in practice.

astine 16 years ago | | |

If there is, it's not within 100 days. I'm pretty sure that people are just adding superfluous arguments to the urls they submit.

I think that there is nothing wrong with this for old timeless articles, if done infrequently enough.

petercooper 16 years ago |

The most important thing when taking on something new is to start. Even if you only get the basics over a few days, hopefully that can get you far enough down the trail to boost your motivation to learn more.

The "X in Y Days" pattern is just one of many that can pull in interested, but not significantly motivated, readers. The books, then, should be judged on their abilities to give their readers a good kick in the butt ;-)

Instead of solely teaching syntax and methods, these rapid learning books should devote a lot to teaching people "how to learn" and what routes to take to learn the specific language better.

mowmowmow 16 years ago |

This has been posted multiple times already. We get it - programming is hard.

FlorinAndrei 16 years ago | |

According to the quoted sources, anything is hard if you want to do it very well.