No Shortcuts

By Peter Norvig

There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.

— Peter Norvig


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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, Peter Norvig.

Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google and co-author of the leading textbook on artificial intelligence. This essay is a response to the proliferation of “learn programming in 24 hours” books, arguing that real expertise takes about ten years to develop.


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