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You can learn the easy stuff by tinkering. It's fun! Many people are smart enough to teach themselves anything. But actually sitting down and doing the work is
by gizmo 3y ago
You can learn the easy stuff by tinkering. It's fun! Many people are smart enough to teach themselves anything. But actually sitting down and doing the work is the hard part. How many people are going to struggle through "Algorithms" by Cormen without the external pressure of coursework and exams? Almost nobody. And that's the problem. It's not that people can't learn by self-study, it's that nobody wants to.
There is no alternative for learning to the structured environment provided by a good university.
- reactordev 3y agoI like that kind of stuff and will gladly sit through it again and again until it’s ingrained in my brain. Some people love to learn. Teach me something or lose my attention. You are right though that there’s a huge difference between doing something as a hobby vs as a job. If you don’t have a passion for it, it will feel like every other job. No matter what you are doing. However, hard work and discipline are good traits to start early so I’m still in the camp of “Go and work and make money instead of go into debt to learn”. >” There is no alternative for learning to the structured environment provided by a good university.” We can agree to disagree. I found the R&D lab of some of the companies I worked for far surpassed what my peers were doing in their labs.