> I don't think my college education has been anywhere near as valuable to me as reading software engineering books and coding a lot But how would you know tha

> I don't think my college education has been anywhere near as valuable to me as reading software engineering books and coding a lot But how would you know that? I thought I was a pretty decent programmer when I started college - I had been programming since I was 5! But a five-year engineering degree gave me some much-needed structure around the things I already knew, and filled massive gaps in knowledge I didn't even know I had.