and IMHO, getting your hands dirty sitting on a computer, with a couple of tutorials on the side, and actually *working on something new beats going through a book from cover to cover. Unless you actually try and manipulate your computer to do something, you're really not going to learn much. And as sorry to as I am to say it, most institutes (and even a few universities) hardly give focus to practical matters.
While this may work for certain people, a structured programme is essential for any professional education. While getting-my-hands-dirty approach will get you do the job at hand, it also deprives many people the theoretical background that disciplines like Computer Science needs.
While computer institutes are primarily places for vocational training(which generally have very low or non-existent theoretical components), even such a place can benefits the students by presenting them with a proper roadmap to gaining expertise in a field.
While the problem of teachers will always be there as you mentioned, if an institute has a proper structured course, and can guide the student through atleast that course, it has added value as compared to learning on your own where you struggle to find out what you need to learn.
Ofcourse the course guide is important too, and having a good course guide will make the vocational course complete.
- Sandip
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