[notbob]

> If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is.

I'm not sure. But what's definitely true is that it's WAY harder as an adult.

Most self-taught programmers I know (including myself) learned to program as children/teenagers. Learning at that age is easier -- if not biologically, then at the very least because you have tons of free time.

The few I know who self-taught programming but didn't learn as youth already had really strong backgrounds in mathematics or physics, and leaned heavily on the skills that studying those fields teaches you.

[warent]

> Learning at that age is easier ... at the very least because you have tons of free time.

That isn't really a valid argument here though because Lambda School is a full-time program to my understanding, so it's expected you somehow have 8 hours a day to put into it.