What Makes You a Good Programmer?

There is a post on parley about how to read programming books. And i veered into a lot of other topics around learning. It's something that's near and dear to my heart, because i started programming really, really late. So this is katrina's ideaand catrina won to tell us what made yo an ideis. If your mon can swallow in graphing calculators and you can get started in the om pano, preferable.