So my buddy who is in software developing studies history at uni but has written code regularly since he was a kid. No formal training.
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Yes when it comes to all people who code but not sure when it comes to those who self learn. The only ppl I know who self learnt code are..
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Academics or people who've done it for a long time, who were interested in computers as kids.
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I think you are mischaracterizing the population of coders. Nobody taught me Python.
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But you had formal training of some kind. You said you could pick up python in hours.
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If you can learn python in a few hours or a day you don't need anyone to teach you that.
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I also had a BBC Micro as a child.
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Let me put it this way, do you think if I had studied history at uni I would be here? If no, why? If yes, why?
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Academic roles I suspect are a little different. I think it's irrelevant what this guy studied other than it wasn't a technical field.
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I think you're confused about what I am getting at probably because I am not explaining myself. I am trying to point out that I think
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something else is going on here regardless of how talented he is. I am not disputing that he might be a great coder, although baseline for
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I must be misunderstanding because what I understood was 1. Formal education better than self learning and then 2. Everyone self learns
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