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Any studies looking at the career trajectories of self-taught developers? Not to equate web development with actual engineering or whatever, but I think it woul
by Alex3917 10y ago
Any studies looking at the career trajectories of self-taught developers? Not to equate web development with actual engineering or whatever, but I think it would be interesting.
- gravypod 10y agoMy initial impression is that if you have the motivation to self-teach you have the motivation needed to breeze past anyone going to university. You'll see a higher rate of acceptance into the job market vs college grads. On another hand I don't think you'll only be looking at web-devs. Self study is everywhere: machining, mechanics, and other engineering like low level firmware work. No colleges teach "important" skills like "how do I make this 300k line C program compile into a binary under 512k" or "how do I write this program so that it can run on this 50kHz CPU".