Very easy to do. No degree here, building web apps on and off for twenty years almost. I've met tons of other developers who had no degree also, some of them ve

Very easy to do. No degree here, building web apps on and off for twenty years almost. I've met tons of other developers who had no degree also, some of them very successful open source "stars." However, it's not possible to get a tech job without learning a lot, so if you go in without a degree, you probably have to be the type of person who reads a lot and does a lot of research as a matter of habit. (Quite possibly has to be true even if you do go in with a degree.) Also an enormous caveat, I had an incredible pre-college education, at least compared to most Americans. Programming classes when I was 11 years old, two years each of Latin and Ancient Greek while I was still in high school. I think I might technically have been doing college-level math in high school, too, but I'm not 100% sure.