Started new course called "Introduction to natural language processing" in uni. I am super bad at doing regular expressions and don't understand anything about them.

Saw the first weeks homework. Have to do i.e. some text cleanup with regex... I was sad. But now after reading the course material and trying some of the exercises I'm super excited since I'm actually doing something "real" with it.

Do you guys just love it when teaching material is well written? I do.

I would have loved if there had been just any teaching material or any teaching at all. I don't think that you guys who are studying IT today really realize how fortunate you are to be able to study programming. In the bad old days when I started out programming there were no educations (well, at least not good ones), no one to ask let alone anyone who'd teach you, no internet let alone Stack Overflow...Most of the time I was on my own when struggling with something new and complicated I wanted to learn.

@TerriToniAX
I can only imagine what it was like before. And I feel sorry for you. Though then the pure enjoyments much have been the thing that drove you forward.

I feel that we live very fortunate time where material is widely available. Though 85% of my university's CS material is super outdated or just super badly written mess (the information might be there, but it takes you n times longer to find it).

This particular material was just well written and therefore got me excited :)

PS. I just couldn't live without pdf's and search function :D

Yes, back then you just had to be passionate about programming to keep going :) No need to be sorry for me. Although it was a pain sometimes, I also enjoyed it and I think it was good for my personal development to wrap my head around computer science from the very fundaments and up.