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Isn't this how we end up with a lineage of uneducated blacksmiths? I am from a rural town focused on oil and gas and some agriculture. There were no software developers were I was from and the internet was only dial-up before I left. A lack of schooling would see me in a O&G work camp right now because I would have been exposed to nothing else.


Anyone who is interested in programming will learn about it regardless. It's especially easy today with things like Google and Youtube.


OK, how about becoming a doctor? Software development is a bad example for today, but was an excellent example for when I was growing up because Youtube and Google both did not yet exist and the personal computer had just started appearing in everyone's home. The resources weren't there.

How would this new setup allow me to become something other than what is immediately around me?




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