programming is all about experience

Having spent a couple of years coding and exploring this industry i tend to think the major factor that influences ones proficiency in coding is experience.

Having experience guarantees that you have made certain mistakes that everybody must make in order to become a professional.It also guarantees that you have tried out solutions to some common problems encountered every day,have encountered the common design patterns that exist for creating software and have tried out the major flavors of programming.

There is the common rule that to master any craft you have to spend 10,000 hours at it, which also tends to stress the importance of experience.