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Did you learn most of your computer knowledge at school?

Self-taught through books?

Through online sources like SG?

As job training?

Just wondering. Unfortunately, I think I've learned the LEAST from the classes I've taken.

trial & error

Mostly self taught.

Never read books or took classes...

I learned a TON of stuff here at SG!

trial and error, but the majority of it through Magazines such as PC Gamer and others

1)self taught(much trial and error)
2)good friend (mcse)
3)A+ course at college

self-taught
MS dictionary
forums
friends online

Trial and Error,
Asking people on SG
Readin online Articles

self taught, but i didnt know ANYTHING about hardware or anything like that until i came here. I Learned most of the stuff i know here.

Self taught, then my job required much training (that was free too!).

Originally posted by Humboldt
Did you learn most of your computer knowledge at school?

Self-taught through books?



Just wondering. Unfortunately, I think I've learned the LEAST from the classes I've taken.

Sounds familiar, College was just a piece of paper at the end and two years listening to those who can't
You know the old saying, Those who can do, and those who can't teach

There were too great teachers at our college but the system stifeled them into teaching nothing

self taught, hardware knowledge from SG, but so much more from BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!!!

Hi Humboldt

My teck Buddy Terry was a big help to me, still is for that matter.

I read a lot of books as well PC World, Maximum PC, bought a few magazines by Smart Computing (good source)

Then one night i stumbled in here a complete ignoramus in all things computer

I read the posts, watched for answers, asked a few OK a lot of questions.

Now i'm completely computer edumakated

A Grateful (Thanks to All here for your ongoing Help)

minir

i owned a GATEWAY it was a real piece of sh!t so i was usually just fixing it all the time but i am learning so much here and i thank you all

Self Taught via trial and error as my primary source

I started really gettin into PC's back in the 386 days and 2400 baud modems, so I had no Internet to use back then....

Mostly I bought magazines, lots of pc magazines, read em ALL the time i lived in them.....

Then when we finally got the Internet, albiet Prodigy at the time, and on a slow 2400 baud modem my world was opened up to me and i found out so many much stuffs....

From there i just read boooks that interested me, and learned crap myself...

Before my MCSE stuff here recently i had NEVER had any kind of formal PC training!!!!!!!!! Actually I did have 2 In High School I took Keyboarding 1 and Keyboarding 2 so i can type fast now, and i did have a neat communications class in HS where i got to use the computer a lot which at the time were Blazing top of the Line Pentium 120Mhz with 16MB of ram

I see Brent had a blazing 2400 baud.......try 300.

Self taught.......my first "computer" was a Timex that had membrane keys and a whopping 16k mem add-on think I still have that bad boy on the self someplace.....

Worked my way up thru Vic 20 and Comodore 64...took some classes on line (way back when the net was pretty much all command line driven) then thru the UCLA extentsion.......but basically just a lot of trial and error..........which included a lot of reformat oops I did it again....Damn!

Originally posted by Banshee
trial & error

Mostly self taught.

Never read books or took classes...

I learned a TON of stuff here at SG!

that makes 2 of us. but i must said i also learned some from my neighbor... hes like brent recreated... but like 40 years old. he used to work for micro$oft and knows practiaclly everything about comptuers. THANKS NICK!

jason

Mostly PCP ( Point, click, and pray )

Also alot of chatting... If I started talking to someone anywhere that was knowledgeable I would talk to them until they were dry for info.

I also read as much info as I can that interests me... I havent read any actual books because most that i have found are either aimed and total noobs or total pros.

Speedguide is my source for computer information, well I learned quite a bit from Axcel216's Website.. that guy rules


Speedcorp is one of the straight out, no nonsence, solid source for computer problem solutions. TonyT and Qthush <---(Norm?) are some of the most knowledgable people I have come across while my one year interest in tweaking,fixing computers.

I got interested in fixing,/tweaking computers because I hated my computer having control over what I did on my computer..lol I have come along way and I thank every person that gives a little bit of their time to help others.

Networking and Win2K: Saturday class at Tulane University and Practically Networked
Hardware: Self-taught, Maximum PC, SpeedGuide.
Software(Win98SE, Win95, ect.): self taught, SpeedGuide.

And lots of books.

I taught myself by watching others

self learning.. classes... speedguide... net...

learned a bunch about microsoft from classes at school. but almost everything else was "whats this do?" and "i wonder what this is?" or "i wonder how i do this?"

IM mostly self taught...only way to learn is trial and error!! Ive wasted many of time doing nothing but sitting around learning DOS commands....when that will come in handy....we shall never know!

First some very basic stuff in HS. Comp studies 1 and 2. Typing 1.

Then I got my first Compaq and became an average user.

Then my brother introduced me to hothardware and tomshardware and I bought my Dell three years after my Compaq, and took a basic computer college course.

Soon I discovered Anandtech and a bunch of other sites and trained myself to become an amateur tweaker, trouble shooter, and a very informed technology shopper.

Now I spend time here.

My learning has unfortunatly stopped as of late. All I do is BS online now here and lurking at SA.

I have been learning software such as Homesite and Photoshop through work.

And I can build a computer now, but it takes me forever and I get paranoid when handling the parts.

Lurking at SA can lead to dementia. That place is nuts.

Self Taught mainly.

A lot of reading online, and chatting.

I'm learning a lot about computers from school now, from a technical standpoint.

Lurking at SA can lead to dementia. That place is nuts.

Yeah. I actually feel as if my intelligence level has decreased as a direct result of reading that site.

Originally posted by brembo
Lurking at SA can lead to dementia. That place is nuts.

SA? im sorry.. im not fimiliar with these other sites

jason

Something Awful, perfect name for that place.

lesse....http://www.somethingawful.com I belive.

The folks there revel in flaming one another

I actually just go there for the thriving GBA community.

The GBA threads and rumors are great to read.

Self-taught.

TD

1. Trial and error
2. College
3. Work

were i learned the most, HERE!!! also trial and error, a curious mind can cause alot of trouble!

I used computers at Uni', started in DOS, wordperfect, basic, moved onto C++ but i never learned about computers until I got my own and figured things out through trial and error and asking the guys on here about things I couldn't figure out.

SG has ben a great help to me and my learning curve has accelerated since I started reading/posting on here.

So i guess I'm self taught with a little help from my friends

Z.B.

Let's see:

Four years of schooling.
Continuing on my own.
Different Forums on the internet (as of last year).

I perfer the hands on stuff. I really don't care to sit in a class anymore.

I'd rather teach myself at this point.

Originally posted by LukeMan
I see Brent had a blazing 2400 baud.......try 300.

Self taught.......my first "computer" was a Timex that had membrane keys and a whopping 16k mem add-on think I still have that bad boy on the self someplace.....

Worked my way up thru Vic 20 and Comodore 64...

Had the same upgrade path back in the 80's...between my timex/commodore computers I had at home and the apple II's at school, I learned quite a bit about the programming side of things. I didn't really get interested in the hardware side of things until about '94, after I bought a 486SX 33 and started playing with it to get more and more performance out of it (more ram, overdrive processor, bigger hard drive, etc)

After I got my current job a couple of years ago, I have been exposed to more computers than a sane man should see I average working on about 8 computers a day, and I always run into something I haven't seen before.

Oh, and my first foray online? (Other than dial up bulletin boards)...Compuserve back in '84 on my 300 baud modem/Commodore 64

My thirts for knoledge of computers and programming stared BEFORE I even bought my first 486 DX for 400.00 used...It took burning my motherboard after two weeks to find sites and freinds that have helped me learn how to fix different problems with Windows and hardware issiues. I also have learned form the mistakes of others when calling Micro$oft for product support...after two hours on the phone at 10.00 for five minutes. "Sir, this is a known issue with Windows98. Please reset your computer and it should work correctly" 90% of the answers Tech Support gives...

unfortunatly i dont know jack about computers and im just learning now. what little i do know i taught myself and i learnd from my uncle. he showed me how to put a puter together and told me what all the ports are and etc etc.. my first computer was a compaq with a 200mghz processor 64mb ram and a 33.6 modem this was way back in 96 or 97. unfortunatly i didnt try to learn i just cruzed around the net and acted like i knew what i was talking about. it wasnt untill 8th grade when i was in keyboarding 2 and i was on an appleIIe that i learnd a little basic that ive forgotten most of. right now id say im a little above the average user seeing as how i can install ram and such things and i can overclock a processor by moving the pins and such. i know enough about software to know what not to do and how to teach myself to do things and all. the big thing about learning though is you cant be afraid to ask a stupid question because the guy thats answering the question at some point had to ask the same question otherwise he wouldnt know the answer. ppl forget that and dont want to be laughed at and so they dont ask wich is stupid IMO.