what could I do if I were to start with nearly nothing?
I would point out that you'd also have to start, prior to a background in CS and software engineering, with an environment that is stress-free enough to learn/do programming. We know that stress reduces the ability to learn and think rationally, and also that poverty is extremely stressful.
How could someone in the situation you describe find a environment that is stress free? I was thinking public libraries but being impoverish would still make it stressful in that case. What are some approaches in that boat to get out of negative feedback loop?
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I would point out that you'd also have to start, prior to a background in CS and software engineering, with an environment that is stress-free enough to learn/do programming. We know that stress reduces the ability to learn and think rationally, and also that poverty is extremely stressful.
How could someone in the situation you describe find a environment that is stress free? I was thinking public libraries but being impoverish would still make it stressful in that case. What are some approaches in that boat to get out of negative feedback loop?