Comment by skydhash

Before 2015, I didn't have a reliable internet access (as in I can access when I want to, not I have access all the time) or electricity. But I manage to learn much about computers and programming. Why? Because a book is actually a very dense information repository. And the rest, you discover by reading code and manuals. The reason I use the internet today is mostly because no one takes time to polish their library and document it. Instead you have to wade through issues report and forums. Compare that with C, where it's much more slower and you can use man for function names.

The internet is much more faster, but you can do stuff locally if someone took care to download documentations (which I did because of the above reasons).