Here’s an interesting article that Peter Norvig wrote about how wanna-be programmers are in such a hurry in becoming a full-fledged “developer,” buying into Teach Yourself <some language> in 21 days books and the likes.
I’ve been developing/programming for a while now and to become a developer, a great one, you simply cannot take shortcuts.
Every aspiring or veteran developer should read or re-read Norvig’s Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years article.