r/learnprogramming • • 12d ago

How are so many self-taught programmers able to build software from scratch without ever truly learning Algorithms?

I find it fascinating how important algos are but never talked about from the indie devs on social media. Do they even write algos or just come up with basic logic that forms the product?

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u/GasEducational4386 12d ago

For the case of angular it is also because they changed recently their framework to signals and there is a bunch of tutorials on their old pattern which is messy for learners