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The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming ProfessionallybyCory Althoff
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“You are not reading this book because a teacher assigned it to you, you are reading it because you have a desire to learn, and wanting to learn is the biggest advantage you can have.”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
tags: computer-science, education, inspirational, learning, learning-quotes, programming
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“to stay motivated: give money to a friend or family member with instructions to return it to you upon completion of your goal within a given time frame, or donate it to an organization you dislike if you fail.”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“It's the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation." —Andy Hertzfeld”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Treat your code like poetry and take it to the edge of the bare minimum."
—Ilya Dorman”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Good design adds value faster than it adds cost."
—Thomas C. Gale”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." —Bjarne Stroustrup”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“PART II
Introduction To
Object-Oriented
Programming”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect." —Daniel Coyle”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“All I have learned, I learned from books."
—Abraham Lincoln”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
—Isaac Asimov”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages." —George Washington”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Eighty percent of success is showing up."
—Woody Allen”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." —Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
—Benjamin Disraeli”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street."
—Doug Linder”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“The object-oriented programming paradigm also addresses the problems that arise in procedural programming by eliminating global state, but instead of storing state in functions, it is stored in objects.”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“The first function has side effects because it relies on data outside of itself, and changes data outside of the current function—it incremented a global variable. The second function does not have side effects because it does not rely on or change any data outside of itself.”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Sometimes a piece of code is long and takes up more than one line. Code surrounded by three quotes, parentheses, brackets and braces can extend to a new line:”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect."
~Daniel Coyle”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
~Linus Torvalds”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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“Also, don't forget that some of the most successful people in the world are self-taught programmers. Steve Wozniak, the founder of Apple, is a self-taught programmer. So is Margaret Hamilton, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on NASA's Apollo Moon missions; David Karp, founder of Tumblr; Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter; and Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram.”
― Cory Althoff, The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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