As someone with a non-traditional programming education, I'm often surprised that so many of my peers also lack a CS degree. I'm in Europe, so maybe the trend is somewhat skewed, but I'd estimate that no more than 50% of web developers here have an engineering background. More often than I ever would have thought, when I come with "I went to a programming bootcamp," I hear something like "I was retrained from sales" or "I learned on my own".
I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
This is a great insight now. This is just the way the world works now. Particularly when someone hates their day job and is able to learn a tech skill and feel like they have the ability to build something, people are more hungry and motivated than ever to do what it takes to get an opportunity with a tech company.
It would be very ignorant to ignore these types of people simply because of the romantic viewpoint on what a "degree" means. It's an early 2000s opinion being forced into a 2019 world where it's just not the case anymore.
Thanks so much for your input!
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As someone with a non-traditional programming education, I'm often surprised that so many of my peers also lack a CS degree. I'm in Europe, so maybe the trend is somewhat skewed, but I'd estimate that no more than 50% of web developers here have an engineering background. More often than I ever would have thought, when I come with "I went to a programming bootcamp," I hear something like "I was retrained from sales" or "I learned on my own".
This is a great insight now. This is just the way the world works now. Particularly when someone hates their day job and is able to learn a tech skill and feel like they have the ability to build something, people are more hungry and motivated than ever to do what it takes to get an opportunity with a tech company.
It would be very ignorant to ignore these types of people simply because of the romantic viewpoint on what a "degree" means. It's an early 2000s opinion being forced into a 2019 world where it's just not the case anymore.
Thanks so much for your input!