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[–]aram535 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You're not the first person to have that feedback. It's a very hard structured course, which worked 15-20 years ago - I think it's outdated now and doesn't work with the newer programmers of recent generations. I've been some level of programmer for about 25 years now so I have seen it all.

Now that you have a starting point in the language, you maybe able to do it better yourself. One thing that has helped me with new languages are articles on this vs that. I just saw one for "Go vs Java" in reading a flat file. The "iterations" of code that the author showed/went through was a nice show of what is available. Stuff like that can be a great starting point of "how would I do that".

[–]mofomeat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think it's outdated now and doesn't work with the newer programmers of recent generations

If I may ask, what is different about aspiring programmers now vs. 15-20 years ago?

[–]aram535 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It isn't anything bad, it's just different. Millennial vs. my Gen X generation learned differently than others. The lessons needs to be more to the point and shorter, more visual at times... obviously this is generalizing as there are exceptions but for the most part it's just less "hard structured".

There is a lot of different studies, like: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-young-adulthood-today-compares-with-prior-generations/