Thread: What does it take?

Being able to work smart, and all of that other junk, you will learn over time if you are working hard. Otherwise you'll just remain in a perpetual state of retardation in which you need to ask programmers on an online message board how to 'get good.'

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Often domain (business) knowledge is far more important. If all you can do is take a spec and write code, you'll never be the best.

meh, most of the people here just seem to be amateurs who dont' give a flying horseas5 about business, and the op only really seems to care about programming. I read the slashdot article about how it's increasingly important for coders to know more about the business side of things, but that only applies for coders that actually want a programming job. The path of many here is to have a job outside of programming and keep coding purely as a hobby so it like, you know, remains fun (real programming jobs often aren't).

It seems that the general idea is to love coding and not think about it as a chore. Anyway that is what stands out as the main thought for me. I understand the concept of understanding business but i feels to me as if it perhaps is against the spirit of programming. Jst an opinion. How many hours do you have to code to become good.At this stage Im so green that there isn't much posts i can post on the forums because i dont really have an idea.