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by mikekchar
3039 days ago
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Quite a lot of software developers were never CS students. In fact in some industries engineers are very much desired as programmers. In others, math and physics majors are desirable. And even when we exhaust all of those, I don't think there is any need to look down our noses at those who took an apprenticeship style approach to the industry. In fact, in my career I have met many CS graduates who dismissed grammars and automata as irrelevant and insisted on writing that parser for a context sensitive language using regular expressions and about 400 global variables (and they still can't understand why it doesn't always work). Besides some of us "web application developers" actually have CS degrees and have worked in half a dozen other industries besides "web application development". Programming is programming and a programmer is a programmer. There's a lot to learn and you have to stay humble your whole career. Not everybody manages it easily. |
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I've worked with lots of programmers over the years and a CS degree has been a very poor indicator of their ability to program in the large.