Comments by "" (@pierreollivier1) on "Projects Every Programmer Should Try" video.

  1.  @InfiniteQuest86  In my own experience, it's quite the opposite, digging on your own on things you have chosen will always result in a better learning experience, whereas from everything I saw through school, high school, and college, people learn the stuff, they do the stuff and immediately forget about it. Whereas, I could rewrite my compiler from scratch tomorrow, because there was nobody to teach me how to do it, I had to take note, watch videos, read, tons of code on github, to even begin to understand what I was doing. This is active learning, and I don't see any world where sitting in a classroom listening to someone talking, would make you somehow more engaged and better, I think the best value comes from the interactions with teachers, and other students but that's about it.
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  2.  @InfiniteQuest86  let's just say it's not for everyone. My best friend for example, he's the type of guy who really thrive in a school environment, I know for sure that I couldn't do it, not that I couldn't to what he does, just not the way he does it, In one year I taugth myself to code in C, and I've made my own C compiler written in C, I'm now learning Zig, I also started a cursus in the school 42. And In one year I probably have as much knowledge of code and computer science than 2/3y in college, the reason has nothing to do with how relatively smart I might be, just that working from home, living at my parent house, I was able to work everyday 10h a day for a full year, that's about 3500h of experience, On top of that this is consistent high quality deep focus time, whereas in College you waste a lot of time and energy going from place to place, and your brain is getting distracted all the time by everything around you, so even tho some people thrive in College and that's good, we must also acknowledge the fact that for some it's much more efficient to learn on your own
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