Anecdotal, but given my case, a resounding NO. 32 years and counting as a developer, architect, and dev manager. Not one hour of college. I'm mostly self-taug

Anecdotal, but given my case, a resounding NO. 32 years and counting as a developer, architect, and dev manager. Not one hour of college. I'm mostly self-taught, but did go to a magnet computer science high school in Milwaukee.