[chrisbennet]

Good developers are self learners (autodidactics). You don’t get to be good by skating by on whatever you learned in school - you need to be continually learning.

I have a degree but I taught myself after my first programming class. My wife’s dad got her started on a little computer and she took it from there.

Certifications in programming seem like a way to separate people from their money. It might even mark you as an amateur as I’ve never met a real developer (to my knowledge) with a certificate with the exception one software P.E. [1]

[1] P.E. = professional engineer. https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...