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But learn-it-yourself is not the way you "learn anything else". There are almost no other professions where this is the case. Surgeons and lawyers aren't expect
by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
But learn-it-yourself is not the way you "learn anything else". There are almost no other professions where this is the case. Surgeons and lawyers aren't expected to learn on their own. The fact that software engineers are expected to do so seems crazy to me -- and potentially dangerous.
- DanBC 15y agoSurgeons are expected to learn by doing; they're just very heavily supervised when they start on live people and they spend time on grapefruit, dead pigs, and dead people first. Reading about a new technique is great. Applying that technique is how a surgeon would learn to do it.
- jeffreymcmanus 15y agoSurgeons don't learn on their own, as many software engineers attempt to. That was my point.