>It’s a surreal experience to be teaching people who on paper blow me away on academic qualifications [...] Can corroborate this experience, however I do not t

>It’s a surreal experience to be teaching people who on paper blow me away on academic qualifications [...] Can corroborate this experience, however I do not think it has much to do with having a degree as much as it does with having the motivation to learn and excel. Our industry has people who are in it to just coast through life as safely as they can, and it shows in the interview and the day-to-day work life. In my limited experience, the feistiest of developers have been those who have learned how to code well, and ship software at an age before they set out to do their degrees (and still went and did a traditional, 4-year CS degree). I have had a great pleasure of working alongside some of them, and to this day I have yet to see this level of aptitude be matched by people who got into CS as a matter of course for a job.