A high quality liberal arts education is years of full-time deliberate practice, under constant feedback and guidance from experts. It's also exposure to the en

A high quality liberal arts education is years of full-time deliberate practice, under constant feedback and guidance from experts. It's also exposure to the enormous volumes of arguments and ideas that have already been explored. Someone who has been working for years under the engineering culture and code review regime on an elite Google distributed systems team is probably going to write better code (at least in that domain) then someone who did a couple of side projects after reading the Rails tutorial.