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"On the one hand I am (to use the new buzz word) agile when it comes to tools, methods, and ideas. On the other I don't have the benefit of the thousands of developers who went before me so I am likely to stumble into the same mistakes they made."
This is where being autodidact hurts me as well. I have taught myself (with the aid of folks when I get stuck) just about everything I know about CS. I do not have a problem learning new syntactic structures, new pragma, etc. What I find I miss out on is algorithms. One of the things I feel I missed out on by not going for that CS degree is algorithm design. Sure I can cobble things together, but they are usually slow/inefficent. I often goggle at some of the things that the better educated monks put together, and oftimes am so amazed at the solution I can barely begin to understand how/why it was done that way. This is where being self taught has hurt me. I can only learn up to a certain point of complexity, then the teacher begins to fail the student- because I do make mistakes and noone is there correct me. Well, that's the way it was until I stumbled onto this place. - Thank my lucky stars. In reply to Re: Re: Autodidact Followup
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