> Don't you teach a student or child with lectures and exersizes
That's not how I learned to program or speak English.
That's not how I learned to program or speak English.
I learned to program by doing programming exersizes (some self-devised, like making simple text games). To accomplish these exersizes, I read programming manuals (in, say, BASIC or Logo); I also looked at simple examples in the languages I was working in.
I did not start by reading huge quantities of source code, including sophisticated programs well beyond my current understanding, in all manner of languages and platforms. This seems very different to training a machine-learning model to me.
I don't really see how the complexity (which is subjective) of the source code one reads makes the training different.