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> There could be thousands of potentially amazing developers out there that will never know their potential because they either never experienced being taught C

> There could be thousands of potentially amazing developers out there that will never know their potential because they either never experienced being taught CS at school, or it was taught badly. In my eyes, the same way it found all of the self-taught developers is the same way it "could have found" the group of potentially unbeknownst developers you are talking about. I'd guess the natural desire to understand how things work (taking apart electronic toys as a child) lead a lot of developers to developing. I find it hard to believe deep down there are generally curious tinkerers who haven't found their way to a programming language of some sort?

bklaasen 7y ago
> I find it hard to believe deep down there are generally curious tinkerers who haven't found their way to a programming language of some sort? I know one. He's rigourously logical. As a hobbyist, he's worked with electronics and complex mechanical systems: analogue cameras and vintage hifi were two of his passions. He's used computers for decades, but for some reason, they never clicked with him in any deep way. I've explained Turing machines to him, and he understands the concept, but it didn't trigger an interest in going deeper. Fundamentally it's about fear, I think. Fear of facing one's own intellectual shortcomings. Computers expose that in a more raw way than tinkering with physical objects, I think.