{"id":554,"date":"2007-12-26T09:39:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/26\/help-me-find-self-education-resources\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T03:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T10:14:32","slug":"help-me-find-self-education-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/26\/help-me-find-self-education-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Find Self-Education Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received a number of e-mails from fellow students frustrated with the formal education process. Frankly, I agree with them. Universities are expensive, inefficient and often waste time teaching topics that students don&#8217;t need to learn. Self-education is a useful alternative, but I&#8217;ve found it isn&#8217;t always as easy as it should be. Finding where to start the learning process can require a fair bit of searching, and often books try to sell hype rather than teach the fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to collect resources you have for self-education. To qualify I&#8217;m looking for products, services and resources that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teach a subject, or facilitate learning (e.g. an online portal that compares different self education products)<\/li>\n<li>Is free or relatively inexpensive<\/li>\n<li>Reputable and reliable. (I&#8217;m looking for self-education programs that represent the type of subjects you could learn at a school, not get-rich-quick tutorials)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you know of any good self-education programs, books, portals or resources, I invite you to suggest them to me either in the comments or by e-mailing it to hello@scotthyoung.com<\/p>\n<p>If I get a large enough volume of suggestions, I&#8217;ll try compiling them into a post as a resource for myself and other self-learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received a number of e-mails from fellow students frustrated with the formal education process. Frankly, I agree with them. Universities are expensive, inefficient and often waste time teaching topics that students don&#8217;t need to learn. Self-education is a useful alternative, but I&#8217;ve found it isn&#8217;t always as easy as it should be. 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