This makes it sound like a recent phenomenon. Self-taught software engineers have been around quite some time. When I attempted to attend post-secondary school (early to mid 1990s), the idea of “computer science” was still too new to academia in general - the course offerings taught little to nothing outside of what one could pick up on their own.
This makes it sound like a recent phenomenon. Self-taught software engineers have been around quite some time. When I attempted to attend post-secondary school (early to mid 1990s), the idea of “computer science” was still too new to academia in general - the course offerings taught little to nothing outside of what one could pick up on their own.