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Sure they could, Internet is not that expensiv and thats really all you need to learn programming.

Sure education is expensiv but self education is not!

That's kinda like saying a book and a pad of paper is all you need to learn astrophysics and work at NASA.

Well there is a diffrence between working for NASA and working as MediCore Java programmer. Its not just about programming but you can learn tons of stuff with help of the internet that is not really expensiv.

Not everybody is cut to be a programmer, just look at the percentage of college kids that fail Programming 101, even though they are in a way better position to learn than the 40 year old laid-off factory worker.

How much of this is because its much easier to learn about business or law? How much of this is because CS101 are often extremly bad (there was alot of talk at here at HN).

Im not saying everybody should learn programming. There is lots of other stuff that will not get taken ofer by mashienes and its pretty easy to learn a lot of this because of the Internet.

The problem is that often its not really about beeing good, its more about having finished the right school or having the right certification. That a hole diffrent set of problems.

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