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Discussion on: The Advantages of being Self-Taught

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Eljay-Adobe

I just saw a fun video called The Future of Programming by Bob Martin. If you watch it, you may want to increase the playback speed; I watched it at the x2.0 setting.

The reason I like it: it covers the very short history of programming starting from when there was 1 programmer, to the many programmers we have today. And how the type of programmer evolved from cross-discipline programmers to college educated programmers.

So what does that video have to do with this topic? It discusses the skills and disciplines programmers had early on, and how those have shifted over time, and something was lost.

I often see that "something was lost" actually still exists in self-taught and entrepreneurial developers.