How long was it before you became good at programming?

Radiation · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:48

I suspect you always learn new tricks and improve over time but im mainly wondering how long when it comes to knowing what's what and how to use that knowledge to create stuff, if you had to guess how many hours it took you to get good in each language you know, what would it be?

Also i was wondering if there's any recommended videos for various programming languages as i found the c++ guy on youtube in another thread and he really makes it easier for me as i prefer that format for learning stuff.

Radiation · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:12

I mean like have a good understanding of how it all works in your mind, not necessarily knowing all the tricks and intricacy's of each language.

So how many hours in a couple of years is that then, you talking a few hundred or thousand?

Thanks.

Radiation · 20 Oct 2009 at 17:16

djkav said:
Before all that tho is the analytical and logic mastery. Knowing how to listen to someone's requests and break that into programming logic in your head. Before touching a computer keyboard.

Any good free videos about which can help in just understanding this kind of thing, not necessarily specific to any particular language, i would do a search but im not sure what for exactly?

Radiation · 21 Oct 2009 at 15:54

Interesting, i thought it might be something like that, so im guessing a few thousand hours before you get good, will i be able to do a fair amount of stuff in the first hundred or so?

Can anyone point out some good educational videos on learning a language and understanding how to develop software in general?

I found the c++ guy on youtube to be quite good and there's quite a few free videos on 3dbuzz to check out, there seems to be some university course videos about as well, though anything you lot can recommend in video or audio format would be much appreciated, thanks!