I’ve also found that, at least here, Computer Science or (Management of) Information Tecnologies are not related to creating or architecturing software, but on understanding and maintaining current ones.

Which is not that bad, you cannot create something if you don’t know previous solutions or implementations… 🤔
Again, there is simply not enough time in 3-5 years of intense education to learn to ‘program’

@eaplmx@twtxt.net I’m reminded of that saying that goes something like:

In order to be an expert at something, you have to spend at least 10,000 hours on it

Or something like that 😅

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci sounds like a really interesting research! By any chance is that paper publicly available?

Not wanting to criticize anything on your paper or your numbers, and based on a book I’m reading, Factfulness, I’d like to know an average and also the standard deviation or a distribution graph on time to learn to program from scratch. Usually the average hides the diversity on the sample.

@prologic@twtxt.net hehe, yeah!

There are a lot of books on the subject such as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4983932-10-000-hours

Now I think 10,000 is saying something like “more time that you’d expect of intended practice, multiplied by talent”

An interesting discussion I heard in a podcast, was that the expertise level grows “logarithmically” (I think that’s the right word). Learning from 0 to, let’s say, 50% takes a year. 50-75% another year, and so. The last 95-99% takes decades of intense and purposeful practice.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci amazing links! 😀

And I got the paper, thanks for sharing! It’s about 200 pages. Wow, that’s a lot of knowledge.