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I was surprised 'a book' wasn't an option.

• stevetrewick 10y ago
  You can't grep dead trees. I learned by going to four libraries (village, town, high school and city) and reading every single book on computers and programming they had plus the entire set of manuals for every system I encountered and any additional systems for which manuals were available. That was basically the whole of my 80s. [0] In the 90s I spent significant enough proportion of my disposable income on programming books that until recently off loaded a dozen crates them they made up the majority of my material possessions by both weight and bulk. These days I just google stuff. Also, the selection bias in the survey probably excludes book learners. [0] With the gaps being filled by arcade games, dial up BBSs and questionable music/fashion choices (even for the 80s). We have stereotypes for a reason.