No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers

Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by james_in_the_uk on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:57PM (#20509227)

Good comment. I can code, and I am knowledgeable about computing in general terms, but I am not a computer scientist as I haven't benefitted from the rigour of formal training. (I am a lawyer, fwiw).

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by staticassertion on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @04:28PM (#20509925)

At what point do I get to call myself a computer scientist? I dropped out of college halfway through.

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by daveFNbuck on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:30PM (#20511130)

There's no real fixed meaning to computer scientist, so you can call yourself one if you like. I considered myself one when I was doing computer science research for my PhD, but I don't consider myself one now that I'm working as a software engineer.

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by Melkor765 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @06:08PM (#20510671)

I think it's fair to call yourself a computer scientist if you do computer science. If I walk dogs I'm a dog walker right?

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Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers by danielscrubs on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:18AM (#20512535)

If you write papers that is.

Doing cs is not coding just to clarify.

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