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I've never stepped on a university or college or anything like that. I was a terrible student. You see, I have selective memory. Unless it's something that really awakens my interest, my brain just won't compute it.
However, if it's something that really awakens my interest, then my brain absorbs it as an sponge.
The result? I would always get 10s in computer related stuff while my classmates would get 8 or 9 at most.
Something like uni where you have to study boring mathematics with unintelligible notations using weird symbols and letters instead of numbers would never go well for me. Specially if the teachers are bad at teaching it, like most were tbh.
However, if it's something that really awakens my interest, then my brain absorbs it as an sponge.
The result? I would always get 10s in computer related stuff while my classmates would get 8 or 9 at most.
Something like uni where you have to study boring mathematics with unintelligible notations using weird symbols and letters instead of numbers would never go well for me. Specially if the teachers are bad at teaching it, like most were tbh.
I remember when I was 7 years old my parents got me into a beginner computer science course. You know... the basics of how to use a computer and do spreadsheets and all that. I was the youngest at that class at the time.
I remember the teacher had a very hard time trying to explain to me how the average function works because my brain could still not process such an "advanced" mathematical function (for a 7 years old kid that could barely do very basic multiplications and that's about it).
Yet I still managed to do better than the rest of the class.
I remember the teacher had a very hard time trying to explain to me how the average function works because my brain could still not process such an "advanced" mathematical function (for a 7 years old kid that could barely do very basic multiplications and that's about it).
Yet I still managed to do better than the rest of the class.
When I was 13-14 I also had a terrible time understanding how to solve simple algebra, which isn't very hard if you know the rules.
It took me a year to finally understand it.
But that also came at a time when they placed me literally in the worst class of the entire high school. That place was hell... I ended having to retake the entire year.
Fortunately the next year they put me in a much much better classroom and then everything started going much much better.
It took me a year to finally understand it.
But that also came at a time when they placed me literally in the worst class of the entire high school. That place was hell... I ended having to retake the entire year.
Fortunately the next year they put me in a much much better classroom and then everything started going much much better.
When I was about that age was also when I would spend my afternoons learning C# for .NET 2.0 using a book I bought, which was more interesting for me than anything they were "teaching" us back then.
While they were teaching us basic algebra and geometry, I was already studying coding on my own. Without internet yet, that would come a little bit later.
While they were teaching us basic algebra and geometry, I was already studying coding on my own. Without internet yet, that would come a little bit later.
And you know what's the funniest part of all this?
While my last job didn't require much of what I learned at high school (basic algebra and regular math are a must, yes or yes), all the coding and computer stuff I learned at home at expenses of my school grades proved to be useful.
No uni required either.
While my last job didn't require much of what I learned at high school (basic algebra and regular math are a must, yes or yes), all the coding and computer stuff I learned at home at expenses of my school grades proved to be useful.
No uni required either.
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I remember going to some early computer class.
It was so bad, they didn't want to tech us the "ctrl + alt + del". So even back then, it was useless.
All I can say is, that the best decision about computer education was going to a university that way way beyond my brain level. They tought me what modern computer science is about, why I will never be the best at it, advanced levels of hard work and 4 programming languages in ONE year.
I know I "failed", but this "failure" was base I could build my future uppon.
