[cdolan23]

Yes. I didn't even study math or comp-sci in college. Learned to program BASIC for build BBS systems when I was 12 (in 1982). Took two Pascal classes (1 in high school, one in college while I studied psychology). Discovered I could apparently program professionally while an intern for a startup. Turns out, computer languages of all sorts come to me pretty easily, probably because of that early exposure. I've ended as one of the better programmers most places I've worked, and my current role is as a director and software architect at a mid-size biotech company (building tools to facilitate genetic engineering; if only my teenage nerd self could see me now!). I still have no real advanced math or computer science training. My approach and experience is entirely practical/pragmatic, and for user facing applications development, I've almost never felt the lack of comp sci training impacted my work. I think of myself as a bit of a hedge witch :). That said, I sometimes have pretty extreme imposter syndrome, and find myself bowing out of of roles that would otherwise be exciting but math heavy, especially ML heavy stuff that's all the rage these days. I still think I'd like to study computer science, fwiw, but there are only so many hours in the day and I am a person with a whole lot of competing interests.