>>The issue isn't access. Access clearly isn't an issue for you, and that's good. Perhaps your peer didn't have access issues either and that's good too, but

>>The issue isn't access. Access clearly isn't an issue for you, and that's good. Perhaps your peer didn't have access issues either and that's good too, but if you believe that access isn't an issue for some people, then you are inexperienced in dealing with some forms of poverty. Perhaps in some places the library is the solution, but in Chicago, public access is limited to two hours a day. I don't know how much access you required when learning to program, but I needed more than two hours a day. That is assuming that you can get a library card. For one, you need a verifiable address, which is easy to produce if you live in a home, but very difficult if you do not. Also, if you have violated your card in the past, perhaps due to a youthful indiscretion, you are shut out of the system unless you can monetarily recompense, which is also difficult to do when you are poor. Not to mention that street gangs can make it challenging to leave your block to get the library in some cases. So while access has improved, to deny that it is an issue for some people because public libraries exist is glossing over the problem.