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> coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free. Just a nitpick regarding “never”: Learning resources weren’t abundant and free 25 years ago
by layer8 5mo ago
> coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free.
Just a nitpick regarding “never”: Learning resources weren’t abundant and free 25 years ago, that’s a more recent development.
- skydhash 5mo agoMaybe in some parts of the world (including mine). But we haven’t have a lot of computers either. But 25 years ago, there was a lot of textbooks and computers editors like O’Reilly already active. I had the C programming language book (not 25 years ago, but the book is older than that) and you could learn a lot with that one book and codeblocks. Same thing with “The Go Programming Language”, “Learning Perl”, and “Programming Clojure”. You only need one book to get very decent.
- layer8 5mo agoTrue, but books weren’t free. I spent quite some money buying those.