[barrkel]

I don't know any good programmers who were taught.

[jhasse]

I would rather say: I don't know any good programmers who weren't self-taught.

[sacado2]

How do you know they weren't taught ?

[douche]

Maybe there's some magical place where you can actually learn how to program from someone else, but for the rest of us, there's no substitute for solitary hours grinding away actually doing the work.