> Basically, does "taught myself" mean "not going to a formal class"/"not having anyone teaching me in person"? Essentially, yes. Although, I've seen people wh

> Basically, does "taught myself" mean "not going to a formal class"/"not having anyone teaching me in person"? Essentially, yes. Although, I've seen people who "learned" how to program from taking programming classes, and I'm starting to believe that, ultimately, the only way to learn to program is to learn it of your own volition, outside the context of an official class. I've seen code from grad students in computer engineering (!) which was buggy, uncommented, poorly formatted, unindented, untested, poorly designed, and sometimes meaningless. Meanwhile, people who went out and learned how to program instead of having the knowledge taught at them manage to produce much better code, consistently.