• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    Indeed. A huge proportion of Gen X professionals were self taught children who learnt on home computers and then grew up.

    CS degrees don’t teach you how to code. They teach you computer science.

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      I’m in this picture! Started taking Harvard’s free CS50 class and quickly bailed, didn’t want to learn actual computer science.