08-28-2019, 08:40 PM
Being a long-time professional programmer only occasionally lets you plan better. Mostly it's allowing you to recognize how much you won't be able to plan so you don't set your expectations quite as high. I've been programming daily for 46 years now and just yesterday I had to throw away a week's worth of work and start over because I had made a poor plan that just kept getting worse.
But don't let that discourage you. Formal schooling is much less important than just sitting down and doing something and learning as you go. And at the end of it you often end up with something fun, like a new game to play.
But don't let that discourage you. Formal schooling is much less important than just sitting down and doing something and learning as you go. And at the end of it you often end up with something fun, like a new game to play.