@lanodan Are these coding problems helpful at all? I kind of regret not doing that much programming during my teenage years.
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>That said I'm primarily a network dev, not like a multimedia dev where piles of math and hand-written parsers could apply.
It seems like I'm in the opposite situation as you. I mostly learned 2D graphic stuff because I never felt the need to write any network related stuff and I didn't have any access to servers or networking equipment, but I wish I did because it would've probably help me get a better job.
But the rest… a toaster is fine, after all for at least a year I was hosting things on a RaspberryPi Model B, which I then upgraded to a second-hand BananaPi which I used for many years.