http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm We're at less than 50% global internet penetration. How many of those p

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm We're at less than 50% global internet penetration. How many of those people without internet have access to programming books and computers? The only reason being a self-starter is so important is because of how trash CS(/math/engineering/stem) education is, globally, and because, unlike the other STEMs, self-teaching programming doesn't require expensive equipment. Online education will almost certainly not deepen inequality edit: among the 30% of the world population that has access to computers and a safe, healthy childhood since it will allow people to skip the real barrier to entry in software engineering: dreadful professors and boring, overwrought courses at expensive to attend institutions.