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Re: Existential Crisis (Or: On Becoming a Better Monk)by logan (Curate) |
on Dec 05, 2002 at 07:17 UTC ( [id://217697]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I've been coding perl about 6 years, and consider myself fairly fluent on the language. Like you, I've never formally studied programming. Sure, I took some classes, but I never made it to Data Structures, which I gather is where you stop learning syntax and start in on something...else. Still, I wrote my code, and finished my projects, and felt pretty good about what I was producing.
About a year ago, I got a new manager. He had a lot more experience than I did, and a very deep understanding of programming. He didn't teach me any new commands or structures. He taught me new things to do with the tools I already had. It was like a door had been opened. The stuff I'm doing now isn't any more technically demanding than before, but because of the exposure to these new concepts in data processing, I can do so much more. Here's a few ideas to break the rut.
-Logan
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