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You're downvoted but learning material has improved a lot since then. Spaced repetition + today's resources should remove a couple years from the 10. People ca

You're downvoted but learning material has improved a lot since then. Spaced repetition + today's resources should remove a couple years from the 10. People can even practice programming on their phone with termux. Anyone can program anytime instead of having to wait to use the family computer for just an hour like back in the day. It's so easy to get mileage in. The complexity of frameworks has increased, but the fundamentals haven't changed and the learning material on the fundamentals is more available and free. This medium article[1] argues there is a decline of genius. > I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age. But I believe we are in a golden age, innovations are made every year, life keeps getting better. Change is so frequent that it has become mundane and we don't appreciate it. Many people are taking advantage of the quality of learning resources, and it's speeding up the development of everything. [1] https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-mak...

quonn 3y ago
> People can even practice programming on their phone with termux. Anyone can program anytime instead of having to wait to use the family computer for just an hour like back in the day. It's so easy to get mileage in. It may be like that for some, but generally in the 90s computers were widely available and those interested were usually allowed by their family to use them as needed. There were tutorials. There were digital manuals. It was not that different.
- tester457 3y ago
  In countries like America yes those 90s computers were widely available. But now practically everyone no matter the country has a phone now. The availability is much higher. There are more ways to learn, videos from harvard and fun games are the new introductions instead of manuals.
  - quonn 3y ago
    Sure, for a few countries (perhaps Brazil, India, China). That is not really related to technological progress but to economical development in those countries, though. Everyone else either had that access (Europe, Australia, Japan, even Russia) or is still too poor to have time or is lacking the necessary fundamental education to be able to focus on it even now (for example, much of Africa, unfortunately).

quonn 3y ago

> People can even practice programming on their phone with termux. Anyone can program anytime instead of having to wait to use the family computer for just an hour like back in the day. It's so easy to get mileage in. It may be like that for some, but generally in the 90s computers were widely available and those interested were usually allowed by their family to use them as needed. There were tutorials. There were digital manuals. It was not that different.

tester457 3y ago
In countries like America yes those 90s computers were widely available. But now practically everyone no matter the country has a phone now. The availability is much higher. There are more ways to learn, videos from harvard and fun games are the new introductions instead of manuals.
- quonn 3y ago
  Sure, for a few countries (perhaps Brazil, India, China). That is not really related to technological progress but to economical development in those countries, though. Everyone else either had that access (Europe, Australia, Japan, even Russia) or is still too poor to have time or is lacking the necessary fundamental education to be able to focus on it even now (for example, much of Africa, unfortunately).