Two weeks ago, I wrote a little post on my personal blog titled "Self-taught vs formal education in programming". You can find it here: http://bit.ly/12131O7 To my ...

Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Sahil Gaba, 33, was an entirely self-taught computer engineer with a mechanical-engineering background. Many new programmers who start in Gaba's shoes ...

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“From talking to self-taught programmers, I’ve found that one of their biggest sources of fear is the knowledge that they don’t have a degree. Non-traditional candidates are really intimidated by ...

I really stopped giving anything about formal education (on an individual basis), but I guess if I was about to hire a self-taught programmer I would see red flags if the candidate wouldn't have an ...