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One of the issues is also that code that's trivial for John Carmack to understand might not be for $BODY_SHOP_RESSOURCE_200353. I recall a self taught dev (or

One of the issues is also that code that's trivial for John Carmack to understand might not be for $BODY_SHOP_RESSOURCE_200353. I recall a self taught dev (or maybe from a bootcamp) coming up with a cascade of nested if-else, nested 8 deep. Someone with a background in CS asked him what he was trying to do and basically concluded that what he was trying to do could be expressed as a state machine. To which the initial dev replied that it was "way too fancy" and that he didn't need the code to be fancy, just work.

rmbyrro 5y ago
Not a counter to what you said, but just adding a point that might be worth thinking: This way of telling may give impression you are inplying that CS graduates know patterns and self-taughts don't. You will certainly find self-taught who know Finite-state Machine very well, and CS graduates that might have heard but can't identify where to use nor how to implement.