[jiggy2011]

Funny, I always thought it the other way around. I struggle whenever I try to teach myself any formal/theoretical stuff because without the aid of a teacher checking my work I'm never sure if I really understand or not.

I never had a problem learning programming languages on my own by following examples though.

[lstamour]

I think you'll find that in CS, there's often if not always a way to implement or approximate the theory in code. To me, that's the more interesting part, but it requires self-learning because there are very few teachers who can blend theory into practical terms. Like the original EE intuition examples, perhaps it's something you appreciate after 10 years in the field.