Writing code is about making your computer do what you need. Writing good code is about enabling teams of strangers 5 years from now to make their computers do what they need.
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And FYI, if you learn via contact with others, through mentorship, teamwork, and collective projects, then by definition you are not an autodidact (self-taught). Being "self-taught" doesn't mean "didn't go to college". It means you learned on your own.
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Though to be frank "self-taught" and "self-made" are generally pretty empty words. It's rare for anyone to do anything in actual isolation. Even if you learn from books and YouTube videos, you still have teachers, whether you acknowledge it or not.
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What, then, do you call people who learned something, usually taught, from books and practice instead? I think you're reaching too hard. There's something there - associated positively with passion and negatively with incompleteness - which deserves a name.
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You call that "self-taught". As I do in this thread.
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Indeed but no feedback, it's like supervised vs unsupervised learning :)
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knowledge distillation is all you need :)
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All coding learning resources out there are the outcome of collective work, so it's impossible to learn coding without being exposed to the wisdom of a networked community. Eventually the issue is with collaborative work, which requires every other skill, not learned by coding.
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This is where open source projects are possibly the greatest way to learn collaborating in software projects, where one can put coding skills to work and learn how to effectively collaborate. That's the part of the skill set, which isn't to be found in books or videos ...
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The VC group that seed funded the first startup I work with, had this policy, spelled out on the wall of their pitch room: Ass****s are not worth your time, and certainly not our money. That was 2003 in Berkeley California
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