Become a Good Programmer in Six Really Hard Steps: #programming #coder #hacker First of all, understand that Peter Norvig nailed this on the head a long time ago: it takes ten years to learn to be a programmer. There's a glut of "learn X in some small number of days" type books out there; there are hordes of blog posts about "how to improve your programming-fu in a few easy ways"; and in general a lot of people come around looking for advice on how to become a whiz with minimal effort.
I'm going to change up the pitch a bit. Instead of Five Easy Ways to Make Your Code Amazing in 21 Days, I'm going to tell it like it is. Welcome to How to become a good programmer in six Really Hard steps.
