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TLDR:

I'm a self taught coder, due in part to the recession of 08. I would encourage anybody that has a desire an passion to learn, don't let anybody discourage you as there are a lot of "negative nellies" floating around out there.

If your long term career goal is to be CTO at a big company, then you should probably go school. Other wise there is plenty of room in the market for all types of developers/codes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-on-programmers-20...