/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I find the similarities between the topics of learning to program and learning to draw to be pretty funny.
>everyone has a different idea of how to start, and will jump to tell you it
>many of these ideas are contradictory
>dizzying amount of resources, books, classes for beginners
>none of these resources fully address all the things you're wondering or need to know
>can barely ask questions because you're barely familiar with the concepts you're asking about
>the people who made your favorite works are almost never the same people whose main activity is telling people how to do it (educators, programming bloggers, etc)
>the people who've made your favorite work sometimes give advice that directly contradicts advice from people known for telling people how to do it (picrel, fowler writes books about how to program and carmack made doom)
>no way to distinguish good advice from bad
>bad advice is either more common or equally common as good advice
>endless arguments about whose advice/resource is better (i feel like i've seen this more on /ic/ but some programmers will say their style is the Objectively Correct one)
>"everyone needs to learn this specific thing" even though it's clearly not going to be relevant for everyones specific goals
>"just code projects/just draw"
>worshipping classic texts/authors (SICP, Loomis) (not saying they're necessarily bad)