That kinda makes me think if I can ever be a good programmer. I mean.. I have a little project in mind that I'd like to make some day, but I'd like it to be useable.
It doesn't need to be Doom3 like. But I really enjoy those simple, yet highly adictive games. For that you need excelent gameplay which ussualy needs a great programmer.
I'd also like to inovlve myself with a couple of projects (in sourceforge for example), but I'd like to be *at least* an average addition to the team, and not a drag pulling the whole project down.
I mean... the whole programming scene sometimes gets a bit intimidating. In "real life* I'm a firefighter/nursing student and although I'm pretty confortable with PC hardware and windows in most aspects (and strugling to change to Linux due mainly to the open source filosophy), I'm afraid I'm just not cut out to be a programmer...
The same thing goes to linux... It just looks so tough to learn... =/
Do you think it's possible for the average joe to learn decent programming skills by himself?