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Comment by Tichy

Programming seems so easy compared to some other jobs. You can pick it up in a couple of weeks by reading a book. If you want to program something more complex, give it another two weeks and another book or online tutorial.

I can't help thinking about medicine instead. Admittedly I haven't tried, but it seems unlikely that the same thing would work for medicine (studying books for a couple of weeks). Even learning medicine in isolation (as is common for programmers) seems like madness.

I will now go looking for tutorials on removing an appendix on YouTube, but I kind of hope that I won't find much...

parent Tichy 14 years ago

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