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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Doesn't that sound like an outlier to you?
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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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