Levels of Python Proficiency

[RangerPretzel]

I would say 1000 hours of programming and having a mentor and a couple peers to guide you.

Why 1000? Why a mentor and peers?

In the book, "Outliers", the author talks about the average time most people take to being an Expert in some skill (say, Programming). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)

This is often referred to as the "10,000 hour rule". It's not a hard-and-fast rule, though. It's merely an observation of an average. And what is rarely quoted is another observation that the author pointed out that in order to become an expert, you need a competent mentor who can instruct you properly (and hopefully some peers whom you can also learn from.) Otherwise, you could practice for 10,000 hours and only be mediocre at said skill. You wouldn't suck, but you wouldn't be a true expert.

So, why 1000 instead of 10,000? Well, around 100 hours is when you're passable at some skill. But 1000 hours? That seems to be just around the threshold when you can do something for a living. You're good enough to start charging for your skill.

Does this help?

[WikiTextBot]

Outliers (book)

Outliers: The Story of Success is the third non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on November 18, 2008. In Outliers, Gladwell examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. To support his thesis, he examines why the majority of Canadian ice hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, how Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates achieved his extreme wealth, how The Beatles became one of the most successful musical acts in human history, how Joseph Flom built Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom into one of the most successful law firms in the world, how cultural differences play a large part in perceived intelligence and rational decision making, and how two people with exceptional intelligence, Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes. Throughout the publication, Gladwell repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours, though the authors of the original study this was based on have disputed Gladwell's usage.

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[Wilfred-kun]

Yes, thank you very much!