npub1de…nthv4 on Nostr: My first project was a computer game, something I enjoyed at the time. I knew ...

My first project was a computer game, something I enjoyed at the time. I knew nothing, the code was terrible and I even knew it was terrible. But it worked at least a bit. Then I made two more games and some tiny random things.

Then I learned another language, made some more random stuff and a very simple game. Later something more useful. Then I learned how to make GUIs, made a bunch of tools my code was considerably better at that time. Then I learned Linux and bash. Made a bunch of scripts and stuff. In total it took about 8 years.

Then I went to a university to learn CS. I did learn a few interesting and useful things but I believe a bunch of that time was wasted and I was still doing side projects and some school project. Oh and yeah, one of them was a game. 🙂

One of the side projects was Arduino. I already knew a bit of electronics and with Arduino I got better. Then I randomly met a guy doing some electronic stuff and he paid me to do a few projects for him. I couldn't do full time because of school.

At some point I got fed up with how horrible the university system is and went around searching for a proper job. With all that I found it pretty quickly and it was a good one, so I quit the school. The only thing I regret about it is not doing it sooner.

For two reasons.

1) bitcoin, obviously. If I did it sooner I would've had more than I could possibly earn in that time frame.
2) There was a lot of stuff that was taught inefficiently or I haven't used yet. I learned maybe 10x more and more valuable information about some topics in a private course in two days than I did in an entire semester in school.

Don't get me wrong, some school subjects were great and the teachers too. But it's just inefficient.