Seriously, I first started programming in high school in 1999, and the resources were as follows: 1) Textbook 2) Teacher 3) Classmates I dicked around doing

Seriously, I first started programming in high school in 1999, and the resources were as follows: 1) Textbook 2) Teacher 3) Classmates I dicked around doing Philosophy and construction for half a decade outside of high school, and one of the things that amazed me when I went back to school was how easy programming had become. Have a compile error? Google it. Getting this weird "Segmentation Fault" thing? Google it, and see what causes it. I went from combing through the pages of the textbook to never cracking a book past second year, and in only a decade or so. I still sometimes marvel at how copying and pasting an obscure error into Google nets me the answer more often than not within 5 minutes.