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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by krageon on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:36AM (#30007601)
> I REALLY wanted to learn languages like C when I was a kid but it was just NOT happening. I was starting from nothing, borrowing library books I couldn't even remotely make sense of.

Depending on what "as a kid" means and your age, did you not try to find such people on internet forums dedicated to (for example) C? I also wanted to learn C when I was a child and did so with those resources (as well as books, which were as impenetrable back then as you already indicated).

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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by skinkestek on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:52AM (#30007731)
For many of us internet wasn't available until middle teenage and then it was first only available on a few select machines on the school. I only realized forums existed sometime after I was 21. And I am born in the eighties
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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by krageon on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:17AM (#30009903)
We had (limited) internet very early and it is easy to forget not everyone did.
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