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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by s_y_n_t_a_x on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:16AM (#20507375)
Self taught, I remember loops were the last thing I learnt as a kid when I was working on my own Tibia servers using Lua. I remember the day it finally clicked. It helped having a forum where you could ask more experienced people to explain it plainly.
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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by rhacker on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:48AM (#20507675)
Self taught from ages 9-18, Qbasic -> C -> C++ -> PHP

I did go to college and learned Java and UML and a few other esoteric things - until I got into my data structures classes. If a self-taught software engineer feels like something is missing, take a few data structures classes. That helps a lot.

But yeah, self taught can take you pretty much anywhere unless the job reqs prevent it.

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