Comment by layer8
6 days 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.
6 days 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.
Maybe 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.
True, but books weren’t free. I spent quite some money buying those.