If I am looking for a surgeon for an operation, it&#x27;s enough for me to know that he was trained at a good school and has enough experience -- for that a bio online is already decent. I trust his education, after all the field of medicine is one of the oldest in existence.<p>There is no such trust in the education of software developers, perhaps because software development is such a new field. I&#x27;ve worked with great ones without a formal education and terrible ones that graduated from good schools. The way to &#x27;prove&#x27; yourself to someone when they can&#x27;t work with you (e.g. first stages of a hiring process) is to demonstrate your work by  using technical articles, GitHub commits etc. Also, that stuff is not specific to web devs, I&#x27;m sure you can find every kind of project under the sun on GitHub.