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Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
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Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#182I've seen a lot of discussion about my choice of looking for a job directly after Highschool. Reasons against college - I recently visited a College Conference and wans't really impressed by any of them, mainly because their presented curriculum where basic js, css, html, react, easy leetcode algorithms which I already know - I don't really happy with my current position in School, where I sit and listen to the teach…
Be careful about trying to recreate campus experience with YouTube videos at home. If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula. The whole adage of if you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong wrong room. You’ll quickly reach a point where YouTube and Google won’t easily do, and only genuine and deep wor…
I'm also experiencing OP's problem.
> If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula.
This has for years been a point of frustration for me.
Do you have any suggestions on how to get into more challenging lectures when the previous ones are prerequisites, and cannot be tested out of?
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#183it looks almost exactly like clickup
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#184it kills almost exactly like click up
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#185Hi Marcus, I don't want to take away from the awesome tool you've written. It looks really cool! But, as a person who followed a similar path to you, I really wish I had taken my teenage and young adult years to not focus on my career or computers. I'd encourage you to spend as much time as you can learning about music, art, film, history, psychology, philosophy, food, dance, sports, nature, traveling, starting usefu…
This advice is absolutely gold.
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be careful about trying to recreate campus experience with YouTube videos at home. If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula. The whole adage of if you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong wrong room. You’ll quickly reach a point where YouTube and Google won’t easily do, and only genuine and deep wor…
I'm also experiencing OP's problem. > If a lecture is basic and you could indeed replace it with a quick video, look for better, more challenging or unique lectures/degrees/curricula. This has for years been a point of frustration for me. Do you have any suggestions on how to get into more challenging lectures when the previous ones are prerequisites, and cannot be tested out of?
> Do you have any suggestions on how to get into more challenging lectures when the previous ones are prerequisites, and cannot be tested out of?
Not much you can do. However, even university administration is just people, at the end of the day. It's surprising how much can be achieved and how many rules can be bent favourably if one simply asks nicely, or has the right connections. That said, you'll need some proof that you're capable of skipping classes. "I find it easy" wouldn't do.
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#187Hi Marcus!
Firstly, I like your project, and it's impressive for someone of your age. Like you, I also have started learning about Development through Minecraft Plugins, which is nice to see. :)
Since you are thinking about not going to College because of wanting to work, maybe a "Duales Studium" is a good idea. It's what I'm doing currently, and I can only recommend it to you. You will experience both "real" Work and Studying at the same time, while also earning some money, which may be the best of both worlds, for me at least and maybe for you too.
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#188Hi Marcus, I don't want to take away from the awesome tool you've written. It looks really cool! But, as a person who followed a similar path to you, I really wish I had taken my teenage and young adult years to not focus on my career or computers. I'd encourage you to spend as much time as you can learning about music, art, film, history, psychology, philosophy, food, dance, sports, nature, traveling, starting usefu…
Counter advice, going to college isn't special and I wasted 4 of the best years of my life for it.
Unless you come from a good family you can't do any of the above and most of the time is spent being cheap.
Great friendships are forged by doing hard things, college can do that but there are infinite other ways to do it.
Find a great job with smart people, take long holidays and do the above without worrying about money.
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#189I had a nontraditional background, and was labeled as a gifted kid. At your age, my dad and I were trying to get a software company off the ground, based around products I had created. That was a mixed experience - I learned a lot from it, but it was pretty stressful. At age 22 I decided to go to grad school (not having gotten my undergrad degree btw) and that turned out to be the right decision. I'm not saying what…
Why was it the right decision?
Re: Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
#190Go to college and have fun. You are too young to waste your best years working.
"Go to college" usually implies registering with a college and becoming a student, which, to justify, is going to require way more work than you'll ever encounter in a job. Perhaps you meant to say: "Take a vacation and befriend college-aged people who like to have fun while on it"?
In the UK we have "freshers week" where all the students party straight for 1 or 2 weeks.
That is the "most" fun part of college if you're into nightlife. Friends of students would come up in the 2nd year and have a lot more fun because they had been earning money by working a full time job while students were getting themselves into debt to have a "good" time.