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by Ensorceled 3588 days ago
In my experience, Gen X and Boomer self taught programmers spent a lot of time hacking at the application or system level and have less holes in that area. They have other holes in their knowledge base, just not those ones.
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That's exactly the reason I chose that descriptor. In fact, the field "Computer Science" may not have existed before.