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> "Other than that, a self-taught student may be tempted to tackle easy problems. " I completely disagree, and I'd say the opposite. If someone has the motivat
by PieSquared 18y ago
> "Other than that, a self-taught student may be tempted to tackle easy problems. "
I completely disagree, and I'd say the opposite. If someone has the motivation be self-taught, then they will have the motivation to try difficult things. Though I would agree that you can't really be well self-taught unless you really have the determination for it.
- donw 18y agoAll of this depends on the person. Somebody who is self-taught because they want a job in programming is going to tackle easy problems. For the same reason, and I know I'm speaking to the wrong crowd to say this, someone who is just in a hurry to slap an application together so that they can sell it will also not tackle anything really hard. Somebody who has a problem that isn't solved by any current software will, by definition, tackle something harder than someone who is just trying to make money.
- calpaterson 18y agoSo far, I haven't ever had anyone teach me programming (will probably change next year). I just finished reading SICP (I love it!), and I've done _moderately_ difficult projects. I've seen another article recently that claimed that self taught people will only attempt "easy" things. I just thought that was derogatory, because other than being self-taught, I didn't "resemble that remark" in any other ways; he painted a picture of someone doing some hypothetical "bad PHP website".