Re:Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
by mrazomor on Saturday January 07, 2023 @01:53AM
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The benefit of formal education (beside easier visa, easier access to the hiring pipelines and meeting new like-minded people) are the tests.
I was struck so many times thinking I understood something (either through lectures or self-learning) to be proved wrong by the exams or talking to other people who studied the same.
It's no wonder that TAOCP is mostly about exercises. But, the algorithms are easy to self-test for understanding and knowledge. The other subjects -- not so much. Formal education helps here.
I was struck so many times thinking I understood something (either through lectures or self-learning) to be proved wrong by the exams or talking to other people who studied the same.
It's no wonder that TAOCP is mostly about exercises. But, the algorithms are easy to self-test for understanding and knowledge. The other subjects -- not so much. Formal education helps here.