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by meheleventyone 2106 days ago
You have one great advantage. You can self-teach. Don't try harder just focus on things you don't know.

I'm self-taught as well and my degree didn't do a great job of introducing concepts that are common place in CS degrees (and hence job interview hazing rituals). It took a long time of me feeling bad about what I didn't know to actually go out and learn about these things. Turns out most aren't nearly as scary or complex as you'd think. As with a lot of academic topics simple concepts are dressed up in domain specific terminology.

Also don't knock breadth of knowledge, lots of very useful prods to problems come from having a wide set of things to draw on. Sure it might be finished by a specialist but they didn't make that leap.

And if none of that is true for you, you are good enough to be here as evidenced by being here. Enjoy it for what it is.