It depends on the situation. At 32 I took CS101 at a local university, never had the money to go before so my first time in Uni, first formal programming train

It depends on the situation. At 32 I took CS101 at a local university, never had the money to go before so my first time in Uni, first formal programming training and felt like I was 1,000 years older than my classmates. I had to drop out do to work problems (laid off), money problems and just the level of stress from the social part of it. Each day I was soaked when I left class I was so nervous just being in that environment I felt like I had just run marathon. Probably at least twice per week I was in the professor's office getting help. Years later I learned most people in class just copied samples off the Web, some assignments I handed in practically blank after being up until 4am trying to figure it out then have to go to work at 7am. My mark was 60% for the first part of semester that I completed. I haven't touched Java since then but I did like it maybe a different environment would have been better.