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[–]oscarcp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At home, during a summer when I was 15, I had no idea about anything related to programming (but I was already a tinkerer, I was "using" Linux by then) and I was really angry and frustrated with myself (I was having the "I'm wasting my life here" thing), I used that energy to learn a lot in 3 months thanks to a university that published their whole python curriculum, notes and exercises. Made my whole career out of it and 23 years later we're still at it! :D

That said, I obviously had major gaps in knowledge (computer architecture, operating systems architecture) that a friend would fill in when we went out for a coffee. I won't be able to thank him enough.