students are facing many troubles when they want to learn the new technology
by thier own . but it will be very efficient when compared to learning from others.
self paced learning will be more powerful than the other and it shows its effects only when they becomes masters in that field. is it right?
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No, its not right, everyone is different. Some people are very good at self learning, some are not. Most people will learn best when they learn at their own pace, but that does not mean they will learn more or be better/smarter than other people.
I, for example, am completely self tought. No schooling in electronics, nor software development. Yet I get paid to do both.
The one advantage I see in being taught versus teaching yourself is that when you are taught, there are many things you don't have to learn the hard way.
The danger in that, though, is that you will be tempted to make fundamental assumptions that may lead to questionable implementations because you were "taught to do it that way."
I am mostly self-taught (having grown bored of formal education after about 2 weeks [not counting computer science, in which my interest lasted a full 15 minutes before I wanted to go hang myself in the closet with my belt]). I can tell you that there are definitely times when I really wish I had the background of a college education in computer development.
But you just can't beat the thrill of figuring out something really cool that nobody's ever done before, and then being able to look around smugly and say, "I figured it out all on my own!"
:)
Unfortunately, often when you do look around, you find it has already been done. It's still something to be proud of, though.
For instance, I independently developed a "skip search" technique which, it turns out, is taught in computer science degrees (which I never studied, of course). But I'm still proud of my accomplishment, and the immense improvement it made to our searching situation.
The biggest problem I have with formal education in the area of computer programming is the lack of useful real world languages being taught. I'm currently in college and working in the computer industry full time. After talking to the heads of the computer science department at the major state school I attend, I switched my major to business simply because I found out that a computer science degree consisted of four years of C++ programming experience and the occasional superfical look into some basic concepts in other areas of programming. In my current job i don't see myself ever programming in C++. So even though I was attending programming classes everyday, everything that i was using at my job was self taught.
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