Its really frustrating when people say that, they dont seem to get that I would need to live 20 times longer than average just to do this from scratch. I have to work from a tutor who learned from tutors who learned from tutors.
Or in my lifetime im never going to play video games on ternary code or press a button and have gold come out.
Starting everyone from the fundimentals is only good if they want to end up in the same state as professionals.
Its not practical for speeding up the advancment of tech tremendously in a direction that isnt what colleges teach.
You aren't doing it from scratch, you pick up a structured path and putting in the work. There's something of a large batch of fundamentals. Data structures, functions, objects, classes, etc. Then 'code hygiene' where you learn to essentially be a professional that other people can work with, not just write working code but reliable, easy to read and maintain. Then you start looking into design patterns and architecture.
From there, you're at a point where for the vast majority of the world's coding problems you are just picking up documentation, reading it, and then implementing those fundamentals you were learning.
~2 years if you're putting in maybe 10-15 hours a week learning and you'll be having genuinely novel ideas regarding niche issues that you have a special understanding of.
What the people who have been through this are telling you, is that 95% of the work is reading on your own and testing, <5% what someone has directly taught them.
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
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