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Quite frankly, if a person has any sort of formal education in their background such as college or even taking coding classes in high school, they are then entirely unqualified to offer such an opinion. It may be easy to learn new languages online due to having learned the foundations, but unless you can say you learned all the foundations online, this type of comment isnt helpful. As many others have mentioned learning is a science and it takes a lot of work to structure learning in a digestible manner.

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I'm speaking from this perspective, I dropped out of school and barely made it to my CS classes. I learned on the job through internships and resources online.

You can test the vets on the knowledge and grant them special certifications that can single out the ones who ha ve tested out of the curriculum.