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| Aug 17, 2015 at 8:36 | comment | added | M.A.R. | As a semi-chemist, and someone who tends to show the new users how things are done at chem.SE, I loved this answer. This answer is a very well-written masterpiece, and all I can say is a "kudos" to you! | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 15:35 | comment | added | Ramhound | Except this isn't a forum. So this isn't the place to bounce those ideas off. If you have a question about a concept you don't understand this is that place. If you have an answer to that question that is the place. This isn't the place to discuss that concept though, unless you are in the chatrooms, SE websites are Q&A websites. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 20:30 | comment | added | Gaius Augustus | Teaching yourself is great! I've taken almost a dozen online courses and am taking more now (along with my full-load of grad school coursework and my research). I am mostly self-taught with programming/computer science. But sometimes you hit a wall and can't move past it, just as I'm sure you do if you DO have a CS background. That's when I come to online forums. My wall is just more basic than others. In my research, I learn more bouncing ideas off of colleagues than sitting with a book. I'd definitely love if when someone gave an answer to a problem, they said where to learn more. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 12:09 | comment | added | Ramhound | @GaiusAugustus - So teach yourself. You don't need a degree to know things. I have learned more in the last 5 years then the 12 years I was in college. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 20:21 | comment | added | barlop | @GaiusAugustus you have no idea how ignorant many people with CS degrees are. Most of them can't fix a computer for example, and many of them can't program either. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | moonpoint | @Gaius Augustus, I can sympathize with your plight, though I have a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science there are many other areas in which I would like to educate myself, but, unfortunately, I don't have the time available to return to school for a formal degree program to get at least a basic education in those areas. I've found MOOCs such as Coursera and edX immensely helpful to me. You can take onlne courses for free and they have many CS courses. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | Gaius Augustus | Just to clarify, yes, I'm missing MANY fundamentals. It's frustrating, since I can't just go back to school for Computer Science to fill it in. Do you feel the prompts when you go to comment/answer are sufficient? Does anyone even read them? Perhaps a simple addition to it or change of wording might help? | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 5:50 | history | edited | Scott - Слава Україні | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed typos.
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| Jul 22, 2015 at 17:54 | history | answered | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |