I don’t encourage this at all, but I dropped out of high school and got an HS equivalency. Started a little business doing web dev and hosting on AWS for local business in my town. This branched into these businesses asking me to fix their printers and computers. Finally, a community bank took a chance on me and hired me on into their IT Dept as a junior developer. It was definitely kinda backwards and I got lucky with really good mentors.
My mistake back then was not paying attention to CS concepts. The fundamentals are important but they can be learned by yourself if you’re disciplined.
Of course, formal studies are (still) very important, but in the end everybody has their own path. I think we are very lucky to live times when we can break into the industry without a CS degree. Thank you for your input.
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I don’t encourage this at all, but I dropped out of high school and got an HS equivalency. Started a little business doing web dev and hosting on AWS for local business in my town. This branched into these businesses asking me to fix their printers and computers. Finally, a community bank took a chance on me and hired me on into their IT Dept as a junior developer. It was definitely kinda backwards and I got lucky with really good mentors.
My mistake back then was not paying attention to CS concepts. The fundamentals are important but they can be learned by yourself if you’re disciplined.
Of course, formal studies are (still) very important, but in the end everybody has their own path. I think we are very lucky to live times when we can break into the industry without a CS degree. Thank you for your input.