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At the same time, the counterpoint is of course that the 80s (and 90s for most) really required you to read a lot of books. There wasn't really any coding boot
by yarper 10y ago
At the same time, the counterpoint is of course that the 80s (and 90s for most) really required you to read a lot of books. There wasn't really any coding boot camps, tutorials (as they are today), pluralsight etc etc and the chances of meeting another accomplished programmer in real life was fairly low.
- clifanatic 10y ago> required you to read a lot of books Actually these kids should be reading all those same books. Coding bootcamps, tutorials, stack overflow and cut-and-paste are the reason there are so many solutions that nobody actually understands.
- maxxxxx 10y agoSome of the books from back then were much higher quality than what you get today. By reading Kernighan/Ritchie and Stroustrup's books and understanding them you could get a pretty deep understanding of C/C++. Most of the material available today seems pretty superficial in comparison. Maybe that's because back then you had a decent shot at understanding the whole stack and now there are just too many choices