I'm not so sure that self-teaching is the best way, I'm sure there are people that can be fantastic developers through education alone. But it's very clear tha

I'm not so sure that self-teaching is the best way, I'm sure there are people that can be fantastic developers through education alone. But it's very clear that the key to being a developer is some sort of "talent" for making sense of how a computer works, and after decades of research we still can't tell if a person has this talent or not. It's an established fact that a large number of people who apply to CS studies just flunk out, because they lack this talent, and we don't know beforehand who is going to flunk out or not. So stuffing education CS programmes full of people, assuming everyone is going to magically become a great developer is a complete pipe-dream of people who think about employees as interchangeable resources. Reality doesn't work that way.