When I learn something completely new, the biggest obstacle is often finding a good source of information and path to learn it on. School definitely has it down

When I learn something completely new, the biggest obstacle is often finding a good source of information and path to learn it on. School definitely has it down once you hit graduate classes (and they often have free accompanying material!), but I'm not sure it's as good for basic programming skills. It's like learning an instrument, you have to work at it a lot and a one-on-one tutor would probably help a lot. What people do need are good exercises and a way to find reference material that is high quality. There's a ton of bad code tutorials and classes out there and its difficult to sift through.