And she is right, you can become a reasonable programmer doing that. But believing that there isn't much value in a formal CS education is plain naive. In reali

And she is right, you can become a reasonable programmer doing that. But believing that there isn't much value in a formal CS education is plain naive. In reality, what she is learning is not really what CS is about. For many universities, it's actually expected that coding, except for the basic stuff, is something you learn by yourself and by solving problems in courses. The information transfer and knowledge sharing that happens when taking a degree is something almost no person can pull off at home.