As a coder (programmer, software developer) without a degree, my question is: If you have that degree, do you know how to code? I've worked with a lot of peop

As a coder (programmer, software developer) without a degree, my question is: If you have that degree, do you know how to code? I've worked with a lot of people with degrees that were not coders. They might have written code in university to get their degree, but I am not sure that they could really code, or maybe they weren't interested. They were managers, architects, engineers, analysts, quality assurance, sales-people, directors, presidents and various other titles and roles but they were definitely not coders. Do not let that detract from getting a computer science degree. I learned from people with a degree: non-coding stuff, and methodologies that I had been clueless about that definitely improved my coding. You need much more than being self-taught, everything helps: formal education and training, working with other coders, work experience, non-work experience, and mostly you need to make mistakes along the way. The first and only thing you need to be a coder, is to code. Keep on coding.