Yeah, this is to some extent a matter of how you define "self taught". I believe that learning to write code does require reading and analytical skills at a le

Yeah, this is to some extent a matter of how you define "self taught". I believe that learning to write code does require reading and analytical skills at a level typically found in a college graduate. If you've had many years of formal education developing these skills, but didn't take courses that involved formal coding... I'd say it's stretching things to act like you're entirely self taught. Suppose you go to college and double major in philosophy and pure mathematics, but never write a line of code. Then you get a job and start reading and coding extensively on your own, until you get good at it. To me, it blurs the line somewhat to call a person like that "self taught". There's a lot of ambiguity, and I'm not entirely sure what the term means, at that point. I mean, everyone has to learn something they weren't taught in school on the job.