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It is not about when you started learning something, but how you learned it. It can be easy to learn the "wrong way" to do things when not classically trained,
by __123__ 3y ago
It is not about when you started learning something, but how you learned it.
It can be easy to learn the "wrong way" to do things when not classically trained, especially in engineering roles, that is hard to unlearn later.
That is, you could have an understanding of something that works for what you have seen so far, but is fundamentally flawed and it is not until much later when you have seem more complicated scenarios that you understand how it was flawed.
Someone learning later, though, from a professional, can be showed the bigger picture earlier and have a better understanding.
- Mezzie 3y agoI agree! I was responding as an example to help disprove 'if somebody starts early, they're good.' I think there are benefits and drawbacks to each type of learning. There's also a lot of things I have some incomplete knowledge of but have never learned the appropriate way/have blind spots about and a lot of things I had to learn the hard way that would have gone way more smoothly if I'd opted for a CS education or learned differently.