New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why don't most self taught developers start with Computer Science?
Ask HN: Why don't most self taught developers start with Computer Science?
5 by zanydude | 4 comments on Hacker News.
If there is one major difference I can point out between software developers that went to school on CS education and those that didn't, it's that the ones that did not go to college for CS did not necessarily seek alternative sources for CS. They go head-first into programming concepts. What we get from that is a more varied mixture on how much CS fundamentals these self-taught programmers know. And many of them tend to stay on the surface of programming topics, using higher level tools but more concerned with learning programming languages than learning about programming languages. So I think maybe this is just part of a more generalized concept that self-taught endeavors are less interested in concepts and theory and more interested in "just doing"? Or do they not encourage the discipline to start on theoretical subjects first, and then build up from there?
5 by zanydude | 4 comments on Hacker News.
If there is one major difference I can point out between software developers that went to school on CS education and those that didn't, it's that the ones that did not go to college for CS did not necessarily seek alternative sources for CS. They go head-first into programming concepts. What we get from that is a more varied mixture on how much CS fundamentals these self-taught programmers know. And many of them tend to stay on the surface of programming topics, using higher level tools but more concerned with learning programming languages than learning about programming languages. So I think maybe this is just part of a more generalized concept that self-taught endeavors are less interested in concepts and theory and more interested in "just doing"? Or do they not encourage the discipline to start on theoretical subjects first, and then build up from there?
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