Python Learning

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at 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