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Originally Posted by drjones
Combination of self-taught, and being thrown into programming project at a computer company i used to work for forced me up to speed really quick.
Soaked up all the knowledge I could from the experienced programmers around me all day, and would get home from work and read books till i passed out.
Any programmmer will tell you the easy part is learning the language. Learning HOW to program is the hard part. Once you learn to program, learning programming languages becomes trivial. Learning a language is like learning the alphabet... learning to program is like learning to write a novel.
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Mostly what drjones said.
Self-taught.
Learned from more experienced others.
Forced consecutively more difficult projects on myself.
Used Google as a huge resource.
And have learned, that if the code looks funny, too complicated, etc. - it's probably done wrong. There's 50 ways from Sunday to do something, but the most elegant and simplistic approach is usually the best -- and like Drjones said, getting to that point is what's difficult. I'm always looking over old code I thought was good and scratching my head, thinking "WTF?"