I have to admit, I’m afraid to call myself a programmer. I spend about 10% of my time at my day job programming, and I have three apps on Google Play that I wrote entirely myself. Still I have this feeling of being a great imposter if I were to refer to myself as a programmer. I have always had this feeling that there is something special that they teach professional programmers in school, and there probably is. It’s probably all of best practices that self-taught programmers like myself have learned the hard way (or haven’t learned at all yet). But I said all of that to say this: don’t be afraid to jump in headfirst to programming. Become an imposter. Believe in yourself. The knowledge is out there, you just have to find it.
There is a bravado associated with people who know how to program, the higher the level, the higher the bravado. This is intimidating for the would-be programmer starting out, because programmers have done such a good job of making themselves out to be geniuses. No doubt some of them are, but that fear of being wrong and of someone putting you in your place can be paralyzing. Don’t let it in. Carry on and remember that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the proof of the program is in the testing and using. If you can write applications that function as intended, you are a programmer. Period.
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