Re: Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years -- From The Archives...
- From: David Tseng <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:48:36 -0700
That's actually much of the subject Malcolm Gladwell deals with in
Outliers. Good read.
On 7/5/11, Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Found this an interesting read...
> See a short synopsis below, followed by the link to the full article.
>
> Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
> Researchers (Bloom (1985), Bryan & Harter (1899), Hayes (1989), Simmon &
> Chase (1973)) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise
> in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music
> composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming,
> tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. The key is
> deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but
> challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current
> ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it,
> and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear
> to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age
> 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In
> another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a string
> of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. But they
> had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since 1957, and
> while they had mass appeal early on, their first great critical success,
> Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967.
>
> http://norvig.com/21-days.html
>
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