The author does not provide any reason why these skills cannot be learnt outside of an academic environment. It is possible to develop alone your programming sk

The author does not provide any reason why these skills cannot be learnt outside of an academic environment. It is possible to develop alone your programming skills to an extent where you can get hired as a junior developer. The rest can be learnt in the workplace. Curiously one of the best developers that I have pleasure of knowing don't have any degrees. If I could go back in time I would have never wasted 4 years of my life going to a university for a CS degree.