How long did it take you to really learn how to program?
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Anonymous2011-01-28 23:35
Learning "how to program" takes less than a week (the basic concepts). Learning a language to implement your ideas take less than a week too(I recently learned python in 2 days). I'm not saying you'll be a fucking engineer, but with the right technologies you could easily tinker something quickly.
But it takes years to learn how to design any form of software (desktop, embedded or web, whatever) without fucking everything you do up with shitty workaround and horrible ideas. You learn through experience. Most developers actually suck at coding(especially those with 15+ years experience) and just add stupid shit all over the code just to make it work asap.
Software engineering is hard, coding itself is easy.