Did any of you programmers learn how to program from a trade/vocational school? If you didn't, but managed to be hired (for your programming skills) anyways, what exactly was your method of learning? Don't answer if you're gonna say college, that's an easy answer. If you didn't go to trade school nor college then I'd assume you learned using programming books. Go ahead and suggest some if you wish, but that isn't the primary concern at the moment. Did you keep a GitHub portfolio?
Another question, if I may; if you did go to a trade school, how exactly did you find it? I'm in the market for one, myself, but haven't actually found any, and google seems to confuse trade schools with community colleges and actual universities, which I want no part of.
I taught myself pretty much everything I know, then found a shitty entry level job and worked my way up from there to a decent job surrounded by suckers who fell for the college meme.
Xavier Adams
No one is going to admit they went to trade school because it is considered low status.
Aaron Ward
As long as you have 115 IQ you should be able to l2c.
Grayson Nelson
Over the last few days I've been trying a different approach, I'm doing it like a white man and reading through C64 books. I'm about half way through All about the commodore 64 volume 1 and If things go smoothly by next week I'll be starting on 6502 ASM. Perhaps modern programming practices make you think too much like a nigger.
Hunter Baker
Yes, it's quite common to do apprenticeships here and unlike the US it's not looked down upon and everything's regulated on a federal level (dual ed bullshit). You can't expect much from it though. I ended up getting a web dev job making shitty PHP websites for small to medium sized businesses. My colleagues from school didn't fare much better either. After getting bored to death I went back to school and am starting my undergraduate in CS this september. Bottom line is: It'll probably work, but you can't expect a software engineer's position with trade school. If you know you'll happily settle with web dev positions for the rest of your life, go ahead. Otherwise just go straight to university.
Colton White
I learned the basic shit in high school, learned more advanced basic shit in college, afterwards I took a trade school course that only taught the basic shit for absolute beginners so I learned nothing there. I got experience doing open source stuff and learning from people much better than me and then when I got a job I learned other stuff. I still suck if I have to do something on my own, but I know my way around code. If I have to work on something that already exists I can manage, but I am pajeet level if I have to start from scratch. Does that make sense?
Alexander Brooks
Honestly, it's not even looked down upon in the US. That's just a post-rationalization people use when they take out a loan for a college that costs 40K per year.
Chase Gutierrez
I never formally learned to program, but it's not too hard. 1. Find a project you want to do. Make it simple and useful, like sorting your music based on the artists' name in the filename. 2. Logically, think about how you can complete this task. For the music sorting above, if the filenames are:
Then you can see there is always a separator between the artist name and the song title. 3. Pick a language such as Python to complete this task. 4. Now you will need to start doing tons of searching. Start with obtaining all files within the directory, look up how to do that in Python. Then, search how to split the filenames so you can obtain the artist name. Keep doing this until you finish you task.
This will be the hardest part of the entire thing. 5. You've completed the task, good job. Go back and optimize your code or learn how to do it different ways. Add more features and then find another task to complete.
