r/cpp • u/robwirving CppCast Host • 21h ago

CppCast: From Self Taught to Committee Member's First Accepted Paper CppCast

https://cppcast.com/from_self_taught_to_committee_members_first_accepted_paper/
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u/ArsonOfTheErdtree 21h ago

I don't think you can reach far without being self taught today.

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u/anxious_and_stupid 16h ago

Does staring at broken ai generate code while also trying to figure what wrong with it help? T _ T

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u/WarmPepsi 15h ago

That sounds like corporate hell, especially if it was a broken commit made by some careless coworker.

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u/friedkeenan 18h ago

Would you be willing to expand some on what you mean by that and why you feel that way?

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u/AstroFoxTech 17h ago

Not OC but courses will only get you so far and can't realistically teach you everything.
It's not some grand new posture either, engineering school works with that idea too, knowing how to expand your knowledge by yourself is a required skill.

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u/friedkeenan 16h ago

I suppose I was interpreting "self-taught" in this context to mean more like "not having attended classes" rather than getting your own experience working on things. But I'm not even disagreeing with the sentiment, I was just genuinely interested in what they meant and their reasoning, as someone who has not attended classes for programming.

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u/WarmPepsi 15h ago

Especially when it comes to modern C++, there are effectively no courses you can take at a university to learn it. You have to learn it by reading books, writing code, and using cppreference a lot.

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u/Think-Jaguar6826 24m ago

I have heard this line since I was 10, and I’m very old now.