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I agree, though I'd like to add that it really helps to learn it properly. I've also met people who learned everything by themselves in an unstructured way, and sometimes they struggle with the underlying concepts. And yes, it's art. But sometimes you want your customer data not to be stolen, and your software not to have any bugs and leaks. I think sometimes it't that kind of art that requires effort, dedication and deep knowledge about a topic.
It's really fun though, at least in my opinion. And it's a broad field. Some software needs mathematical precision and be provable and secure, other things are more design, there's so many different things...
Yeah and I agree, you can just try lots if things on a computer, and if it's not right, you just correct it. Mistakes are cheap while learning... And that's not the case in other professions. So you can just try and figure out things pretty much as you like.