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Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks?
An anonymous reader writes "I have been programming in some fashion, for the last 18 years. I got my first job programming 15 years ago and have advanced my career programming, leading programmers and bringing my technical skill sets into operations and other areas of the business where problems can be solved with logical solutions. I learned to program on the Internet in the 90s.. scouring information where ever I could and reading the code others wrote. I learned to program in a very simple fashion, write a script and work your way to the desired outcome in a straight forward logical way. If I needed to save or reuse code, I created include files with functions. I could program my way through any problem, with limited bugs, but I never learned to use a framework or write modular, DRY code. Flash forward to today, there are hundreds of frameworks and thousands of online tutorials, but I just can't seem to take the tutorials and grasp the concepts and utilize them in a practical manner. Am I just too old and too set in my ways to learn something new? Does anyone have any recommendations for tutorials or books that could help a 'hacker' like me? Also, I originally learned to program in Perl, but moved onto C and eventually PHP and Python."
Exactly. Old C programmer here, it took me exactly 8 days to learn coding for OSX and iOS. It's just wrapping your head around things. and don't be afraid of saying ,"what nimrod thought that was a good idea" at times, because I see a lot of idiocy inside the frameworks.
I also chuckle at things when I see what amounts to devolving to perl obscurity in a lot of the new stuff. People trying to save keystrokes and sacrifice readability, damn kids get off my libraries and frameworks.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Dude, don't you know by now that GOTO is considered harmful? And you call yourself a programmer!
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.