If You Aren't Sure Which Way To

Focused, Hard Work Is The Real Key To Success. Keep Your Eyes On The Goal, And Just Keep Taking The Next Step Towards Completing It. If You Aren't Sure Which Way To Do Something, Do It Both Ways And See Which Works Better.

In The Information Age, The Barriers [to Entry Into Programming] Just Aren't There. The Barriers Are Self Imposed. If You Want To Set Off And Go Develop Some Grand New Thing, You Don't Need Millions Of Dollars Of Capitalization. You Need Enough Pizza And Diet Coke To Stick In Your Refrigerator, A Cheap Pc To Work On, And The Dedication To Go Through With It. We Slept On Floors. We Waded Across Rivers.

Sometimes, The Elegant Implementation Is Just A Function. Not A Method. Not A Class. Not A Framework. Just A Function.

Note To Self: Pasty-skinned Programmers Ought Not Stand In The Mojave Desert For Multiple Hours.

The Situation Is So Much Better For Programmers Today - A Cheap Used Pc, A Linux Cd, And An Internet Account, And You Have All The Tools Necessary To Work Your Way To Any Level Of Programming Skill You Want To Shoot For.