g9kate: Why do young startup founders like mark,steve,gates and a lot others drop out of school. And is it advisable in the Nigerian community, is it true that seun of NL also dropped out? If its true, why? Please i want y'all and even seun to say something about this very controversial issue 'cos i'm faced with a likely problem of the same nature: u know 'coding all day' to realise a startup that could evolve to one of the most successful cool stuffs in history and it tends to clash very much with academic performance, though i av neva been a dullard, I've always been brilliant bt now I'm jst on the average verge and some people are like: what's going on with this dude? What do y'all have to say on this

spikes C: not only you man, programming is a thing of passion and such, would make other things depreciateable. My GP is going down, i miss school often, i think about codes while lectures are going on, i answer question with programming terminologies and give examples with programming problems/solutions. It gets worst when the unqualified lecturers talks about computer stuffs, gosh, i feel like strangling the idiota.

But my little advice, even if you wanna drop out, pls do so when you're sure you've found 'the secret' to sustain you for 2 life times

Meanwhile, i must get my degrees no matter what. I think its a thing of personal decision and i have made mine

Beaf: When you are intelligent to a certain point, school becomes either a time wasting joke or time wasting punishment.
It isn't just young startup founders that leave school, the Worlds most genuinely prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (to whom we owe everything from matches to recorded music), was a school drop out too. He left school in anger after his teacher described him as addled; meaning, confused, dull stup!d... You know the drill.

School is not for the hyper intelligent. What could anybody have taught Bill Gates about programming? He taught himself as a kid in his spare time and as a mere boy, innovated beyond the wildest dreams of profs with the greyest beards and corporations with bottomless pockets like IBM (whom he as a young man, he muscled out of the top computing position in the World). What do you want to teach such a guy in in school?

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It is sad though that, while in places like the US such prodigious brain power is rewarded, back home in Nigeria intelligent people are called names and given zero opportunities. In fact, many people see intelligent folk as a direct threat to their ability to make corrupt money. How would they import (and sell) spare parts for Ajaokuta if some kid can make these things right there at Ijebu-Ode or Awkunanaw? Who would invite foreigners in with mega kickbacks and other "waters under the bridge" when some guy in the creeks of Yenagoa or Warri can bring in a speedy and innovative fix?
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School is not important when you have super brains. In fact, it becomes a burden.

GideonG: This is the first time I am saying this in public...

I dropped out of Federal University Of Technology (ATBU BAUCHI)in 300level studying Petroleum Engineering.

I am a passionate programmer, I only sleep for two hours and programming is more than just a passion to me it's an addiction.
I believe I am born to be great! watch out for me.

GideonG: This is the first time I am saying this in public...

I dropped out of Federal University Of Technology (ATBU BAUCHI)in 300level studying Petroleum Engineering.

I am a passionate programmer, I only sleep for two hours and programming is more than just a passion to me it's an addiction.
I believe I am born to be great! watch out for me.

Blugreen: Ah! Please ooo. Don't get yourself addicted to programming. It is a work you do at leisure and gradually become a full time job. Put schooling first because your browser would never give out the correct results if the spelling of your attributes names and values are wrong!

Blugreen: Ah! Please ooo. Don't get yourself addicted to programming. It is a work you do at leisure and gradually become a full time job. Put schooling first because your browser would never give out the correct results if the spelling of your attributes names and values are wrong!

lordZOUGA:
there is no leisure in programming... You think frustration is fun?

netghost:

programming is not my hustle , i do it for fun....Personally i think you wont go far in programming if you go into it expecting to get you daily bread from it, it should be a thing done out of free will, gradually you find it paying the bills, your comment is still the basic reason the open source community is lacking Nigeria

worldbest:

If you program only at your leisure time alone, you may never go far. The addiction grows on you because of the passion. I ‎​am a student and i code or think about codes 24/7 and it has helped my programming and improved my logic. The addiction of programming got to a stage where i would sleep with a biro and paper just incase i come up with an incredible idea. When i watch TV, play games and engage in real life activities, i try to relate these activities with codes. So you see, if you love programming, do not set a specific time to do something.

Blugreen: netghost has said it all. Programming shouldn't be taken as a full time job or you may get your àss thoroughly and badly kicked. Sleeping with a paper and pen will not make you a good programmer neither kicking football 24/7 will make you Lionel Messi. Talent has a great role to play. The best programmers in the world doesn't spend more than 30 minutes coding in a day. Anything you good at, you always find it easy and spend less time with it. If you ain't good at programming, find some other things you good at so that you spend less time with it. Don't code for 24/7 or else, it won't take long before you start realising the time you have wasted

spikes C:

I'll just say you're an inexperienced beginner. No time to argue with u.

spikes C:

I'll just say you're an inexperienced beginner. No time to argue with u.

spikes C:

I'll just say you're an inexperienced beginner. No time to argue with u.

lordZOUGA: there is no leisure in programming... You think frustration is fun?

Fayimora:

Can't believe someone can actually make such a statement. Until you stop perceiving programming as something that should't make you think or something that should make you rich, you will NEVER, and I repeat NEVER see the joy in programming. To make it worse, you will NEVER be worth the name "programmer".

Just like @netghost, I program for fun! When you embrace it properly, you will get more than you asked for. Programming is for those who know what programming actually is!

@worldbest, people that learn at that level and suddenly have startup(s) are called ENTREPRENEURS not PROGRAMMERS. They never wanted to program, they only found a very lucrative way to try out their actual skills!

netghost:

programming is not my hustle , i do it for fun....Personally i think you wont go far in programming if you go into it expecting to get you daily bread from it, it should be a thing done out of free will, gradually you find it paying the bills, your comment is still the basic reason the open source community is lacking Nigeria

Fayimora:

Can't believe someone can actually make such a statement. Until you stop perceiving programming as something that should't make you think or something that should make you rich, you will NEVER, and I repeat NEVER see the joy in programming. To make it worse, you will NEVER be worth the name "programmer".

Just like @netghost, I program for fun! When you embrace it properly, you will get more than you asked for. Programming is for those who know what programming actually is!

@worldbest, people that learn at that level and suddenly have startup(s) are called ENTREPRENEURS not PROGRAMMERS. They never wanted to program, they only found a very lucrative way to try out their actual skills!

Fayimora:

Can't believe someone can actually make such a statement. Until you stop perceiving programming as something that should't make you think or something that should make you rich, you will NEVER, and I repeat NEVER see the joy in programming. To make it worse, you will NEVER be worth the name "programmer".

Just like @netghost, I program for fun! When you embrace it properly, you will get more than you asked for. Programming is for those who know what programming actually is!

@worldbest, people that learn at that level and suddenly have startup(s) are called ENTREPRENEURS not PROGRAMMERS. They never wanted to program, they only found a very lucrative way to try out their actual skills!

Blugreen: you can tell them again.. Get rich programming? Ah! That is suicide! I strongly believe there are people who doesn't know what programming is all about(newbie) and planning to buy a private jet with it. Smh for who ever takes programming as the only means of livelihood or thinks programming can make him the next Bill Gate. Embrace with passion and play it for fun at leisure without aiming getting rich with it and you will see the end result. Deliberate abandoning school for programming? Ah! Taking a rat poison would be better! @ Op "Seun" is not a school drop out. He his a graduate @ Ife( Obafemi Awolowo University) if am not mistaking. And all those names you mentioned did not drop out of school for programming. Complete your school bro

netghost:

programming is not my hustle , i do it for fun....Personally i think you wont go far in programming if you go into it expecting to get you daily bread from it, it should be a thing done out of free will, gradually you find it paying the bills, your comment is still the basic reason the open source community is lacking Nigeria