I’m self taught and do data science for work and game dev for hobby. Functional programming has seemed much easier to pick up without formal teaching than obje

I’m self taught and do data science for work and game dev for hobby. Functional programming has seemed much easier to pick up without formal teaching than object oriented. The latter appears to have many more unknown unknowns. e.g. in game dev I did not know that static methods and objects existed, so I built a bunch of dictionaries in an instance of a single use class to store some data for a game. It works, but its garbage. But hey, all things are discoverable eventually, and I would argue going through the experience of why things are nice before learning they exist has some merit to it. I don’t blame companies which require credentials though. Hiring is hard, especially hiring many people at once.