No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
There&#x27;s clearly strong feelings in this thread. Whether or not a degree is necessary, I think we can say there&#x27;s two groups:<p>- People who went to university, going through significant effort for their degree, and want to defend that choice<p>- People who _didnt_ go to school, perhaps suffering from a touch of imposter syndrome, who want to hide their insecurity<p>I&#x27;m a 20yr old &quot;self-taught&quot; dev. I&#x27;m considering going back to school this year. But its a tough choice. Things are going very well for me in the professional world so far. I was in a CS undergrad program for a year but didn&#x27;t feel like I was learning as well as I was on my own, to be honest.<p>What I think I can say with confidence is theres not much point in arguing about this. If you want to go then go. If not, don&#x27;t. Why do we have to prescribe a gospel on this? Let people decide what they want to do. Part of why &quot;self-taught&quot; devs like myself often suffer from insecurity is people shouting the absolute necessity of a degree. I don&#x27;t see it.