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Normal, yes. The nice thing about forgotten knowledge is that it's much easier to jog the memory and get it back than to learn it from nothing. You likely sti
by bbarn 4y ago
Normal, yes.
The nice thing about forgotten knowledge is that it's much easier to jog the memory and get it back than to learn it from nothing. You likely still use a lot of the fundamental concepts without realizing it.
I am someone who came from a non-traditional, self-taught path ~25 years ago. I did get some formal schooling in electronics, which you'd think was useless, but I can think of a few times solid digital logic understanding has served me well in the past, for example. On the other side of that, I designed some shitty databases early in my career! Understanding normalization could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was new.
- dev_0 4y agoBut you don't know what you are studying is important or not until you are confronted with a real world problem
- xeromal 4y agoYup, I can't tell you what 6th normal form is anymore, but I can tell you if a database looks poorly designed or not. lol
- justbaker 4y agoWhich of those helps day to day? I’m always going to say the latter lol
- justbaker 4y agoI always think self taught is a better pathway. You gain more experience making mistakes and learning from them that way. You also pick up more “best practices” by learning how shitty your bad practices of the past were.
- dfinninger 4y agoI was trained in EE, and I’ve been surprised at how many times I’ve reached for Karnaugh Maps while coding. It’s really helped simplify some gnarly conditions I’ve come across. Each time I’ve forgotten how to construct them and use them from scratch, but a five minute skim of some grad student’s PowerPoint was all I needed to get right back into it.