> I studied about 8-12 hours a day, for several months. He lists 8 months of study and that before starting the curriculum he was "self-taught" meaning he at l

> I studied about 8-12 hours a day, for several months. He lists 8 months of study and that before starting the curriculum he was "self-taught" meaning he at least knew how to code and do a little more than "hello world". If we add his "self-taught" time it gets us pretty close to an actual CS degree. He's missing language classes, some electives, math and stats but he's mostly there in terms of content. He's missing labs, projects, problem sets of course. When viewed like that it doesn't sound as clickbaity as the tittle implies, that you don't need a degree to go in the field. He's just a really really motivated self learner. And almost got a CS degree's worth of material. Kinda like Gates "dropping out" a few credits short of getting his diploma, not after failing intro to econ like a lot of "drop out entrepreneurs" out there.