Title: I was wondering to what degree the HN community of programmers is self-taught.<p>1) How did you learn to code? Totally self taught from books and RTFM &#x2F;&#x2F; Self taught plus MOOCs or comparable resources &#x2F;&#x2F; Some classes in college but no CS degree, remainder self-taught &#x2F;&#x2F; Self taught plus a developer bootcamp or some non-degree related formal education &#x2F;&#x2F; CS degree and personal efforts<p>2) When did you start learning (perhaps informative because of the recent rise of MOOCs)?<p>3) At what point (if yet) did you start working as a programmer professionally relative to your initial efforts?<p>I had been wondering about this for a bit and the discussion here (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6467914) motivated me to finally post it.<p>Administrative note: I&#x27;m below 200karma so I can&#x27;t make this a poll, if an admin wants to throw some polling categories in here that&#x27;d be cool too.<p>Edit: added quotes to the self-taught in the title since I realized that with the advent of StackOverflow and various other social learning tools that there are very few who can truly claim not to have learned at someone else&#x27;s digital knee at some point or benefitted from the currently robust community that exists online now.
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