The more I think about it, I think this is all about two different kinds of learners: some who want to learn something for the challenge of learning, and some who need goals/projects to make sense of stuff.
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Yea. I guess my style/preference crosses both. I love learning for the sake of learning, but I use projects to do so. But, that may be a consequence of my experience.
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I never took computing seriously or learned to program systematically, but I was lucky to have a computer in the house from a young age. So, I had plenty of experience that made it easier to learn programming when the time came.
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When the internet was young, @UniTampere had all of us students build our own website (html by hand!) and made it normal for history majors and sociologists to understand how to do it.
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I got into programming to make interactive slide shows of cats... then I needed to persist state, then I needed to analyze the interactions and make recommendations based on past trends... and persist state asynchronously in real time at scale with cacheing optimizations.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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