Why Learning in Classrooms is better than online resources. Part 2.

https://thecoderfactory.com/posts/Why-Learning-in-Classrooms-is-better-than-online-resources-Part-2

by dansiepen • 13 years ago

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elliotec• 13 years ago

This is something that I am in complete agreement with, but which took me a while to realize.

I was learning how to code on my own for a long time. I learned a lot. But I also developed some bad habits and realized about 6 months in that I hadn't met a single other programmer since starting to learn.

So I signed up for a developer bootcamp (Code Fellows in Seattle) because my aversion to traditional education was - I realized a bit late - the root cause of my aversion to the "classroom."

Since starting, I've at least doubled my knowledge and grown my network base by several orders of magnitude, and its only been 2 weeks.

It seems like I really wasted a bunch of time not meeting people and collaborating, and being in an environment where that is not only required but also easy is very enlightening.

dansiepen• 13 years ago

That's awesome to hear man and glad that you could agree with me on those things. Yeah it comes down to a motivational factors of wanting to learn code and getting your projects actually done in a shorter space of time. Good luck with the bootcamp man :)

Why Learning in Classrooms is better than online resources. Part 2.

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