One the job training is fine if you expect to be programming for only 5-10 years. A 30-50 year career requires a foundation that you are unlikely to get on the job. If you love programming, get your CS degree.
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There is nothing special about academic institutions that hold the keys to CS knowledge. I've been programming for 12 years. Are you suggesting I should take a four year break to go back to school?
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Likewise, 14 years over here. If you want to get a degree, go for it! But there is no hard rule that you need one. The industry moves so quickly that the most important thing is to learn how to learn on your own.
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11 years for me! My career has never been more fruitful than it is now and I'm past the 10 year mark
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check back in at 40
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Respectfully, think about the concrete people you are talking about here. Your argument amounts to questioning my personal CS work (and many others) as being fundamentally illegitimate in the absence of a degree. I don't think you mean to be saying that.
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Not my intent. But I do think you are an extreme outlier and it is a disservice to use yourself as a model for them norm (same probably could be said for me).
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Maybe I'm not an extreme outlier but rather a good framework for rethinking how to help working programmers gain CS skills. And maybe telling people otherwise does a disservice to the cause of getting working programmers to take CS more seriously.
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