This does not seem true.
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Replying to @awbjs
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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Replying to @awbjs @ryanflorence and
Is your position that they’ll *never* learn stuff that a cs degree taught me? Like - compilers, set theory, algorithms and data structures etc? I think you may be wrong.
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Nope, but I CS training taught be how to learn new things and a strong (for the time) foundation to built personal learning upon
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Replying to @awbjs @threepointone and
I'm a 21 y/o self taught senior engineer, I've worked at several large (and small) companies. I learn new things everyday. College has nothing to do with it. I find new problems and find new ways to tackle them.
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That's often the problem with self-taught programmers. They find new ways to tackle problems when they should be using the old ways, which are often better.
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This is a stereotype and wrong for two reasons: 1. Plenty of self-taught programmers (myself included) read the literature, including recent papers. 2. Occasionally this new energy breaks important new ground that was "stuck" via inertia from the field's existing momentum.
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