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Originally Posted by Linguist
I disagree. The best programmers are those who love and are fascinated by it and went for formal education in computer science/engineering. Learning things by yourself is quite alright but you're missing out on a lot of theory that comes in handy very rarely but when it does, sets you apart from others.  |
Well, I have to disagree with you. I believe programming in general has nothing to do with reading through some books, you're only going to forget 80% of the shit and only have a basic insight of how to do anything (probably just know how to run some loops or print text onto a page, woopty doo). You need to think outside the box and then incorporate other things (ajax, javascript, etc.) into it from searching Google or whatever. Anyone could create whatever they need for any site if they just took the time out to put it all together.... if you're a rich bastard then yeah you'd probably be better off just hiring someone to do it. But the problem with that is if you want some simple feature added you either need to bug the programmer again for it or have someone on call 24/7. If you just knew how to piece shit together yourself it's easy as pie.
Edit: Seriously, the morons saying to "read a manual" either don't do any programming themselves and shouldn't even post here, or are some bizarre mental exception to the rule and can memorize everything they read.