> Information is readily available for free (I recall saving up a lot of money for a kid to buy specific programming books at the book store after exhausting my library’s offerings).
Gave me flashbacks to when I was younger. I would work on a problem until hitting a wall I couldn't get around then go into Books A Million with pencil and paper and copy concepts/algos out of CS books. I was too poor to spend $50+ on a book at the time. Now, anything a new programmer wants to know is just a Google search away.
But, there is so much more that just diving in can be hard. Even simple things are complicated I think mainly because expectations are so much higher.
Gave me flashbacks to when I was younger. I would work on a problem until hitting a wall I couldn't get around then go into Books A Million with pencil and paper and copy concepts/algos out of CS books. I was too poor to spend $50+ on a book at the time. Now, anything a new programmer wants to know is just a Google search away.
But, there is so much more that just diving in can be hard. Even simple things are complicated I think mainly because expectations are so much higher.