I've been pondering similar questions to this myself, and this post does a great job of shedding light on the answers. Some of my own biases and priviledges in how I've come to be a programmer have definitely made me not see a lot of the difficulties that many would face when trying to break into this field.
It goes to show that just because someone has lots of online resources to learn in no way just makes it easy to learn. Maybe easier in a few ways, but not just plain "easy." That was one of the biggest parts I didn't understand myself.
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There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
True, it's definitely easier today than the days when computers were not in every house, and the only resource you could find was a used FORTRAN copy in the public library. But as you said, easier != easy.
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I've been pondering similar questions to this myself, and this post does a great job of shedding light on the answers. Some of my own biases and priviledges in how I've come to be a programmer have definitely made me not see a lot of the difficulties that many would face when trying to break into this field.
It goes to show that just because someone has lots of online resources to learn in no way just makes it easy to learn. Maybe easier in a few ways, but not just plain "easy." That was one of the biggest parts I didn't understand myself.
True, it's definitely easier today than the days when computers were not in every house, and the only resource you could find was a used FORTRAN copy in the public library. But as you said,
easier != easy.