No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
I&#x27;m an engineer. No CS degree. I coded for fun on various side projects from 2006-2012. I didn&#x27;t consider myself very good.<p>I worked at a couple startups from 2012-2013. During that time, I became very proficient in Coffeescript and a couple popular frontend frameworks. I was very productive in terms of pumping out lines of code (that somehow resulted in a working product).<p>However, I didn&#x27;t know how to write a for loop. If you had asked me what &quot;for...in&quot; was, I wouldn&#x27;t have had a clue. And forget about asking me how setTimeout has to do with the call stack.<p>The problem with being self taught, at least in my experience, is that you end up being very strong in whatever areas it is that interests you, and whatever areas of CS are relevant to the projects you&#x27;re working on day-to-day.<p>In 2013, I began to realize my (glaring) deficiencies as a programmer. That was the point when I started spending all my free time doing online CS courses. They helped a lot with filling in the knowledge gaps that I didn&#x27;t even know I had.<p>The main reason I&#x27;m posting this is to give a shoutout to Project Euler.<p>Project Euler (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projecteuler.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projecteuler.net&#x2F;</a>) is an amazing way to test yourself (and learn) CS concepts. If you&#x27;ve done a coding bootcamp and want to do a &quot;gut check&quot; to see how much you learned (or how much you have left to learn), I&#x27;d highly recommend Project Euler.<p>(I&#x27;m happy to say that in 2019, I can write for loops all day long...)