The part about being "Dangerous" is either a joke or incredibly naive.
However I understand where he is coming from, it reminds me of when I learned Objective C / iPhone. I made a decent (Read:Not Great) game in 3 months of programming in my free time (Das Boot:The Hunt for U-505)
The code was ugly and terribly dependent but I made 3k right out of the gate and I still get a deposit of around $50 a month from Apple 3.5 years later!
Objective C feels "easy" now and my code is clean, however it's hard not to be humbled by what you still don't know. I have been doing a lot of Server/Php/JSON/iPhone in my bootstrapping and it's really amazing how far I've come.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Keep it up!
Dangerous in the sense he knows how to break things, but not fix them. It's a common expression for people who are getting past the beginner stage moving on to intermediate.
There's also the dunning-kruger angle. He doesn't yet know what he doesn't know.
However I understand where he is coming from, it reminds me of when I learned Objective C / iPhone. I made a decent (Read:Not Great) game in 3 months of programming in my free time (Das Boot:The Hunt for U-505) The code was ugly and terribly dependent but I made 3k right out of the gate and I still get a deposit of around $50 a month from Apple 3.5 years later!
Objective C feels "easy" now and my code is clean, however it's hard not to be humbled by what you still don't know. I have been doing a lot of Server/Php/JSON/iPhone in my bootstrapping and it's really amazing how far I've come.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Keep it up!