Actually I think its very central-its almost a badge of honor to brag that you didn't waste so much money on college, and that you self taught yourself at a you

Actually I think its very central-its almost a badge of honor to brag that you didn't waste so much money on college, and that you self taught yourself at a young age on Assembly/Basic/Perl/PHP/C/Slackware/etc. There's definitely a lot of pride in being called an engineer without a BS (much less a BS in CS).