I've been programming for almost 20
years now (some of that in school), and just recently began exploring web programming (started looking at php over the summer).
I found the information helpful, even though I can code pretty massive simulations with complex algorithms in C++ for a desktop environment, I couldn't build simple ruby/rails apps. Slowly learning about the fundamentals of persistent web databases (migrations), http restful I/o, and many languages for data access and views on that data (HTML,php,JavaScript,java,scala/lift,ruby/rails,python/django, along with many APIs). This is probably going to take me more than 10k more hours to learn well.
I don't know about that. Three years ago, my entire programming career had been spent in Swing apps and utility scripting. I only started on Rails to be able to sell my Swing app better, and only started to get into SQL, Javascript, and all the rest of the rabbit hole as my business (and day job) required me to. Thats, hmm, about 7 kilo-hours as an upper bound if you assume that all of my day job and business time goes into web programming, which is very, very far from the case.
I've been programming for almost 20 years now (some of that in school), and just recently began exploring web programming (started looking at php over the summer).
I found the information helpful, even though I can code pretty massive simulations with complex algorithms in C++ for a desktop environment, I couldn't build simple ruby/rails apps. Slowly learning about the fundamentals of persistent web databases (migrations), http restful I/o, and many languages for data access and views on that data (HTML,php,JavaScript,java,scala/lift,ruby/rails,python/django, along with many APIs). This is probably going to take me more than 10k more hours to learn well.