To the guy that says that there is no-such thing as "self-thaught" as you always learn from others or the guy who says he is self-thaight despite going to college/doing courses - both arguments are as invalid, as they are contradictory to each other.
Try being 14-15 year old with no knowledge of English and no knowledge on anything basically who picks up on the language and programing mostly by yourself - hint - it takes YEARS to get to "hello world!" and it might happen so that you learn what is the "data types" in your programming language after you've already completed several projects, for example.
I am pretty sure it's not like that in college.. it's quite different even if someone just tips you on the right direction, let alone teach you.
And of course - we're all stepping on the knowledge of everyone before us, as we're born naked, helpless and knowing basically nothing.
The difference is in the number and size of the obstacales you had to go through alone and all the mistakes and wrong directions in the maze of knowledge. Picking up a second programing language cannot be compared with learning to program for the first time.. even grasping the concepts of variables, functions and loops is quite a big deal if you start from scratch. Basically every little bit of knowledge is a huge advantage, that's why school and university are actually pretty important (take it from a guy who only got to 12th grade).
I felt obliged to rant a bit, as I myself had little to no direction or help and basically zero hours of being taught programming (and English).
As much as everyone is entitled to their own opinion and self-confidece, that's something no one can take away from people who are truly self-taught
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To the guy that says that there is no-such thing as "self-thaught" as you always learn from others or the guy who says he is self-thaight despite going to college/doing courses - both arguments are as invalid, as they are contradictory to each other.
Try being 14-15 year old with no knowledge of English and no knowledge on anything basically who picks up on the language and programing mostly by yourself - hint - it takes YEARS to get to "hello world!" and it might happen so that you learn what is the "data types" in your programming language after you've already completed several projects, for example.
I am pretty sure it's not like that in college.. it's quite different even if someone just tips you on the right direction, let alone teach you.
And of course - we're all stepping on the knowledge of everyone before us, as we're born naked, helpless and knowing basically nothing.
The difference is in the number and size of the obstacales you had to go through alone and all the mistakes and wrong directions in the maze of knowledge. Picking up a second programing language cannot be compared with learning to program for the first time.. even grasping the concepts of variables, functions and loops is quite a big deal if you start from scratch. Basically every little bit of knowledge is a huge advantage, that's why school and university are actually pretty important (take it from a guy who only got to 12th grade).
I felt obliged to rant a bit, as I myself had little to no direction or help and basically zero hours of being taught programming (and English).
As much as everyone is entitled to their own opinion and self-confidece, that's something no one can take away from people who are truly self-taught