On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: >> Chris Angelico wrote: >>> You do NOT have to go to college before you start creating software. >>> That is also not an opinion; it's a fact backed by a number of proven >>> instances (myself included). >> >> Me, too. I started programming (a tiny homebrew machine) when I was >> about 12 or 13. I was just starting to get exposed to algebra at >> school then. > > I thought I had programming covered when I entered college. I wondered > if I'd be wasting my time and just collecting my diploma. However, after > every year I realized I hadn't understood anything the year before. > There was just such a wealth of understanding I never would have been > able to come up with on my own. > > Then I graduated and joined the workforce. Since then, I have learned a > thing or two, but I learned more during my first year in college than I > have during the 25 since I left. > > What's more, everything I learned in college has been priceless in > practical day-to-day work. >
Interesting. I'm not surprised that you can learn more in college than in the years *prior* to it (if you were just dabbling), but I would have expected that you learn more actually on the job. Are you seriously saying that you've been 25 years in the workforce and not learned anything new? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
