Finally something I'm an expert. > if they should go to culinary school I didn't go to culinary school. It means I might be one of the best chefs in the world

Finally something I'm an expert. > if they should go to culinary school I didn't go to culinary school. It means I might be one of the best chefs in the world, however, I will never be hired by a hotel. For 11 years I cooked exclusively in the top 20 restaurants including 2 of the top 3 on the Bay Area Zagat survey, yet, I couldn't get hired for months on a private yacht because I was not 'culinary trained'. At these restaurants, my title included chef de cuisine and sous chef. Often I'd be the only cook without at least a 2 year culinary degree from CCA or CIA. It was the same thing when I decided to start coding. I don't have a degree. It doesn't matter how incredible my github portfolio is. Nobody looks at it. I went years without being hired because I didn't have a degree. I code because I very much enjoy it like I still very much enjoy cooking, not because I want to make lots of money. I strongly regret not returning to school to get a 4 year degree in Computer Science. I working on data viz using d3 utility libraries and react native svg at the moment and spend whole evenings working through khan academy courses on linear algebra and tranforms with matrices because I don't have that knowledge. If someone wants to enter coding, it's not necessary to get a 4 year degree in CS, but I strongly recommend it.