Self-Taught Programmers

I know someone who went from not coding at all to a proffesional dev in 2 years. He got hooked on a programmable game mod at the age of 16, and by the time he graduated high school he was working as a web developer. Never took a CS class in his life, he just got really into it.

Self-taught starting over 40 years ago for fun, then transitioned to FT around 28 years ago. Books, time and mainly a driving passion to write code, get it working and often even make it useful is how I got started. No college but several corporate paid courses in the interim and learned a lot from experienced co-workers over the years, some were degreed, some were self-taught and some of the degreed actually were very good.

Self taught from UK with social science degree that I barely achieved.I learned by trying to build a few different things and hacking them together until it worked.I had many late nights of watching youtube videos and reading tutorials to try to understand more complex stuff. I remember seriously questioning if I'd ever get better.8 years later and I'm a Senior Software Engineer in an incredible team at an exciting company. It's possible!

I wrote my first code in visual basic when I was around 12, following internet tutorials, but the lack of consistent access to a computer / internet made me give up on it fairly soon.Later on, when I was 16/17 I started tinkering again after the fascinating revelation that any piece of code running in my windows machine used a common set of APIs and that I could read/change the code if I just learnt x86 assembly. So I did.It was probably a combination of books, one-off unive

I found job as dev at the beginning of my degree, so i think i can say that im self taughtSo my answer isDoing programming related stuff almost everyday (excluding job)

I am "self-taught". Started in 1981 when I was 10 years old and my mother bought me a sinclair zx81 instead of the Atari 2600 I wanted for Christmas. It came with a bunch of games in the form of 3 books. After my initial shock and disappointment wore off I started to input the games and became hooked on programming.I did study a uni CS and EE for a couple of years, but left because my school was way behind what was happening in the real world at the time. I was consulting in the IT

I'm a self-taught programmer. When I was 8 I would check out BASIC books from my school library and type them into our Apple IIe during recess. My parent's got me a programmable graphing calculator with BASIC to encourage me, and I was married to it for a few years.Later my parents got a 486 and I got into the wide world of DOS/W3.11 gaming.In high school I learned how to build computers and install linux. I bought C++ Primer Plus but I never made it past Chapter 4 or so. C+

I taught myself programming from outdated JavaScript tutorials. What does that make me? (Probably a little crazy.)

Yes this is me, I am self taught and from a small and poor town. Other than freelance I was 27 when I got my first high paying, full time programming job (in the Bay Area.) While the other couple of self taught people from my home town work in factories (and the one I know who went to school for it works at Boeing.) It was definitely not easy and I’d be further ahead had I went to school, but I probably wouldn’t work in startups and I don’t think I’d be anywhere near as good (and the people I

I have a CS degree and still consider myself self taught. I started programming as a kid, and learned mostly from books and coding. I only got my degree because I thought it'd be necessary for getting a job.