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Re:Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:28AM (#18597115)
> If you have the capacity to complete deep CS courses, you can buy a book for $12 and learn React or Angular or any technology you want.

But this is how you learn new skills, no? People were learning from books for ages.

> Most people don't have this capacity.

If you can't understand written word, how on Earth could I trust the code you write?

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Re:Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift by lazyasciiart on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:29AM (#18597488)
No, people (on any meaningful scale) have never learned from books without teachers. What scenario were you thinking of?
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