>I learned most of my programming skills in college, and everyone I know did too. I could program before, but really poorly, because I didn't have fundamental c

>I learned most of my programming skills in college, and everyone I know did too. I could program before, but really poorly, because I didn't have fundamental computer science knowledge. This, a lot of the self taught folks that sneer at degrees often struggle with things that were essentially solved by algorithms that are very familiar to people with an education.