Good Programmer or not ???

Disclaimer (Yet again) :

The post which I read from the internet is authored by a well known software personality. I do not want to take any credit from his post. I would definitely disclose the URL of it, provided you let me know who are you? Else you can do a search and end up @ it as well..

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Hmmm... (Sigh).. As I read a post.. on the website of a software person. The problem is, I am sad after reading that post. I did show it up to some of my colleagues at work place.

The post was about how to screen and shortlist good programmers, and also talked about who are good programmers. It said, good programmers start young, very young. They are so much fascinated about the way things work, that they end up tweaking, tweaking, almost everything (i am talking about software related stuff) . So when about to graduate, they would have programmed in a variety of environments, (open source, closed source).


Why I am feeling sad is, I started programming @ literally 17 yrs of age, First year of Engineering. I did not tweak around with anything, doing what was needed the syllabi (my bad), (not so keep it a secret), to save my *&^. That qualifies me as an average programmer.

I always want to be seen as a little more than avg programmer. But after reading this post, not sure whether I will make it there.

But when it comes to blogging, I am happy that, I have made a start atleast, at a very young age.
I am 24 as I write this post and I started one year back, meaning I was 23 then. Though I am far away from giving gyaan (intellectual posts), I manage to write some crappy stuffs over here. I am happy for that. Going ahead, I may and want to better myself.

And regarding being a better programmer, Hmmmm....(sigh), I can only pray ...god give me more strength to make it up there ..

Btw, there is a sloppy bit of writing on this post. Do let me know.. if you find it...

Cheers,

Thanks God.