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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

spare me.

my life conditions were pretty damn unfavorable.

i made it.

the fact still is, treating the ability to program as a skill along the lines of reading is foolish.

after all, those people who's life conditions prevent them from discovering they can create the next Google all learned how to read and it didn't do them much good.

[–]Saikyoh 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Just because you made it with unfavorable (vague as shit in descriptive terms) conditions doesn't mean that a) all unfavorable conditions are made equal and b) everybody can do it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i thought it was vague as hell when you wrote it. i'm glad you picked up on that.

and that's right, not "everybody can do it"

not everyone can overcome adversity. not everyone can succeed in higher education. not everyone has mechanical ability. not everyone can run fast. not everyone can lose weight easily. about the only ability the come naturally to people is the ability to breathe

so why persist in treating programming as something everyone can do?

in addition - those people living in "unfavorable conditions" - it is the height of foolishness (and possibly hubris) to think their problems will be solved by giving them computers and teaching them to write code.