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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
The tech world changes so fast only the developers who pursue self education, continually, are worth anything. I've found that the self taught developers tend to fall into that category more than the more formally trained ones... I'm not saying this is always the case but I personally don't even have a high school diploma but I'm a published author on the LAMP stack (by Sybex) and I am proficient in Perl, Python, PHP, C++, C, Objective-C, Ruby, JS, AS, and more...
I've had the pleasure of working along side some fantastically brilliant people who never completed a college degree... the "father of jabber" they guy who created the XMPP protocol doesn't have a degree and Google seemed to collectively think he had the best thing going ;)
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... and Bill Gates was a dropout. And Zuckererg quit after first year. Exceptions are good and all but try explaining big-oh runtime to someone spending a few days of your company's money to irrelevantly optimize their ok-running code.
Ironically, one of the best coders I know went to art school and never had CS education. But these are exceptions and are wayyyy far and in between. I know a -lot- more smart people who went to school for CS/math.