Can one be a better programmer as a result of training in a specific way?

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15 years ago

HN is quite helpful on similar thoughts expressed in the past and I have read some of them. But my question is somewhat different. Suppose you have a decade. Is it possible to use that time to "train yourself" to be an increasingly better programmer?

Or is it more like no matter what happens, your "scale as a programmer" is constant?

Philip Ross argued (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-expert-mind) that getting better at chess is possible with "correct" training. Thus, 10 years spent without correct training and the same time spent with correct training can make a vast difference.

Would that apply to programming?

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