I get that someone completely new to software as a whole won't just pick up a bunch of papers and specifications and go for it, but after some years in the industry it just seems faster to do it that way than something as time-consuming as a boot-camp, no?
It depends on your style of learning. Some documentation is great like React documentation and it is easy to learn and understand it and some documentation is really dry and hard to understand. If we talk about learning one thing, one documentation that is dry it is manageable, but when it comes to learning something like full stack development that has many flavors, trying to determine what to learn and learn it in a correct order might be challenging, specially when you have limited time and energy.
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I get that someone completely new to software as a whole won't just pick up a bunch of papers and specifications and go for it, but after some years in the industry it just seems faster to do it that way than something as time-consuming as a boot-camp, no?
It depends on your style of learning. Some documentation is great like React documentation and it is easy to learn and understand it and some documentation is really dry and hard to understand. If we talk about learning one thing, one documentation that is dry it is manageable, but when it comes to learning something like full stack development that has many flavors, trying to determine what to learn and learn it in a correct order might be challenging, specially when you have limited time and energy.