[yakult02]

//How many years will it take to become an expert programmer?

[macosxnerd101]

This thread is a good place to start for Java. There is no magical formula or given number of years. It depends on the person, their aptitude, and the amount of effort they put into it.

[trixt.er]

int i = 0;
Person you = new Person(); // no points.
while (you.getLife() != null){
   you.addCodingMasteryPoints((++i));
}

[smohd]

Above from what mac trixt.er and pointed, I amy say it depends on:
- How much time you use to study and practice per day?
- Which way you use to study? Are you among those copy/paste code and then say I get it? Just finding done projects from internet and run it?
- Do you follow what is going on in IT world? because everyday new things and technology are added

So, to get better in programming:
- Use your time well
- Dont just copy/paste code from books or internet, understand things and use your head to think more
- Dont feel shy to ask when you get trouble, use internet, fellows and forum like this
- Follow for new technologies and programming news to know what tech is used now!
- Dont panic when you get maany errors in your trial, just keep going

[ShaneK]

Expert programmers usually don't even consider themselves expert programmers. Few do, but they generally earn it. (And though DiC says I'm an "Expert", I don't really agree.)

You never run out of things to learn, man.

Yours,
Shane~

[DivideByZero]

It's not a matter of how long, but how much time you put in.

There is a common saying that it takes ten years to master a skill, but what if you only spent two weeks on that skill a year?
By the 10th year you would still be a beginner.

Try not to fall into the trap I got into where I rushed core concepts so that I could be advanced quicker.
Learn each concept and learn it well.

Take a day just making a program for each concept you learn, and only until it's drilled in do you move to the next concept.

You'll be helping us noobs out here in no time

This post has been edited by DivideByZero: 24 June 2011 - 05:10 AM

[pbl]

And there are people who will never be even after 20 years of programming

[JackOfAllTrades]

Moved to Java Programmers

[jon.kiparsky]

trixt.er, on 22 June 2011 - 10:15 AM, said:

int i = 0;
Person you = new Person(); // no points.
while (you.getLife() != null){
   you.addCodingMasteryPoints((++i));
}

Trixie, that's some whacked-out code. I think you need to add some codingMasteryPoints, quick.
It looks to me like you've got a method called "getLife()" that returns null when a life is gotten? I've seen some weird out there, but this is the first time I've ever seen true represented by a null. And why do you have programming progress increasing as the triangular numbers? (0+1+2+3+4...)

[cfoley]

Oh, the irony.

[cockyt23]

jon.kiparsky, on 24 June 2011 - 10:00 PM, said:

trixt.er, on 22 June 2011 - 10:15 AM, said:

int i = 0;
Person you = new Person(); // no points.
while (you.getLife() != null){
   you.addCodingMasteryPoints((++i));
}

Trixie, that's some whacked-out code. I think you need to add some codingMasteryPoints, quick.
It looks to me like you've got a method called "getLife()" that returns null when a life is gotten? I've seen some weird out there, but this is the first time I've ever seen true represented by a null. And why do you have programming progress increasing as the triangular numbers? (0+1+2+3+4...)

love this !

[foofo]

A life time...

[jokham]

About 10 years or 10,000 hours of practice according to this.

[jon.kiparsky]

The ten years/10K hours idea is trivially a myth, unless you believe that all skills worth acquiring are acquired in the same period of time, or unless you mean by "expertise" just that level of knowledge which is absorbed after 10K hours of exposure.

[amit2011]

_{will take infinite yrs to be an expert............
lolzzz}