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I would have very much liked to have a CS education (I have an MS in Neuroscience), but did not really know I had aptitude and a passion for it until later in my life. I took the long self-taught route to programming being very task driven, ie the first business I started needed certain things so I just did it. Was it ugly? oh heck ya! To some degree it still is, but for many years it has more than payed the rent.

I very much miss a mathematics background but these days there are many sources of information that can and do aid in the solving of programming problems.

I have railed against "credentialism" for years because ultimately there have been many people I have worked with who were capable of many tasks but not allowed to the opportunity because they lacked a degree, but not the skills. And don't get me started on people doing the identical job but one getting more due only to a degree.

A credential tells me what you might be able to do, a body of work shows me what you can do.